Hello:
I just wanted to let you know we had good reception yesterday of Radio
Marabu on 6210 kHz
from 2114 until 2359 UTC on October 6th.
Our location: Bakers Island, Salem, Ma USA
73,
Chris Lobdell
P.S. will send formal report and audio clip in a few days!=

Hello , my name is Linas and i live in Lithuania, city of Tauragė. Today while listening to the 48 meter band i noticed your transmission on 6210khz. You dont hear such nice music on shortwave bands too much. Judging by your website it is your very first SW transmission. I am using my Degen De1103 and a 20 meter long dipole to receive your station. Signal is about S9+20dB and fading a little. Sinpo rating: 54434.

Two weekends ago, I had the great pleasure of hearing Radio Marabu once again on the popular 48 meter Pirate band!! Its very rare that I am able to hear your broadcasts here at home. However I was able to recognize a few songs and hear several of your pre-recorded jingles. Normally I’ll hear your broadcasts at my remote listening location away from town where reception conditions are quiet. So I’m very surprised I was able to hear at home. In any event, if you would be so kind, I would appreciate it if you could confirm my reception with an e-QSL verification card, please. If you have no e-QSL card, a simple confirmation e-mail message would suffice.

As I mentioned above, I heard your all-night broadcast in the 48 meterband on the frequency of 6,210 kiloHertz. The date of my reception was 7 October 2012.

Below are a few program details I was able to copy. The times are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time, which is the same as GMT).

2305 UTC I first tuned in at this time, alerted „Alexandr“ in the Ukraine while we were chatting on-line, and he tuned you in as well.
2358 UTC It wasn’t until this time that the signal improved enough and I was able to recognize the song „You are the Woman“ by Firefall.
0003 UTC A man announcer, but I was unable to copy was what said.
0329 UTC I was finally able to recognize another song called „Voices Carry“ by the group Til‘ Tuesday.
0355-0359 UTC I noted a more recent song mentioning Superman“ in the lyrics, but I don’t know the title or artist even though I heard the song many times.
0410 UTC Possible mention of your e-mail address and Internet URL, followed by a clear station identification jingle by man in German, and more mentions of Marabu.
0412-0416 UTC The song „I Want to Know What Love is“ by the group Foreigner.
0436 UTC I noted another pre-recorded station identification.
0449 UTC Clearest pre-recorded station identification jingle by woman announcer in German.

What follows is a description of the signal quality.

The strength of the signal was poor. There was no man-made interference to your signal at all. Atmospheric static noise was slight. Fading was severe, both moderately quick and also for longer periods. In the short term, the signal would peak for around 5 seconds before fading again. In the long term, the signal was more erratic, peaking around 0000, 0330, and 0400 UTC. Overall, the signal quality was very poor to poor. In the SINFO code, that would equate to 2/5/4/2/1-2. Of course the factors affecting reception the most was the signal strength and the fading. Please listen to the attached MP3 audio file to hear exactly how well your signal was received here. Clips 1-3 are songs that were heard when the signal was peaking. Clips 4 and 5 are of announcements and station identifications. I’m sure you’ll be able to recognize your programming.

To listen to your broadcast, I was using a Microtelecom Perseus (Software Defined Radio) receiver. The Perseus is connected to and controlled by an Asus laptop computer. My antenna is a vertical triangular Delta Loop 46.3 meters in total length and from 2 to 12 meters off the ground. Besides the Delta Loop, I have a Wellbrook ALA1530S+ loop antenna. However, the Delta Loop provided a slightly stronger signal. I also use several other receivers including a Japan Radio Company model NRD-535D, an old Hammarlund model HQ-129X (circa 1946), a Collins model R-388 (circa 1953), and Eton E1 (portable) receivers from time to time. I have listened to shortwave broadcast radio stations as a hobby for over 35 years now, and free radio stations almost as long. In that time I have been an active member in a number of shortwave listening clubs including the North American Shortwave Association, Fine Tuning, The Atlantic States DX Association, Numero Uno, Cumbre DX, The Danish Shortwave Clubs International, Dr. Tims Piraten News, and the SW Pirates and Alfa Lima International Free Radio Board Internet groups. I have also helped co-edit several hard copy club bulletins over the years.

To tell you a little about myself and my location; I am 50 years of age. Until recently, I worked as a process engineer and inspector in the quality department for a local electronics subcontracting company. Besides shortwave broadcast listening, my other hobbies include: running, Astronomy, and weather observing, and to a lesser extent digital photography, and traveling. If you were curious, Dunlo, the town in which I live, is a small village (population about 800) situated in the Laurel Mountains in the south-central part of the state of Pennsylvania. We�re about 500 km or so inland from the Atlantic coast. Even though its a small town, you should be able to find it using Google Earth on the Internet.

I’m curious as to how much power you were using?? From what I’ve experienced, I would estimate you were using around 70 watts at most. And how did you get the name Radio Marabu?? Does it have anything to do with Malabu, CA??

If you ever decide to go on the air again, please don’t hesitate to drop me an e-mail.

Again, I’d be most grateful if you could verify my reception. I thank you very much and hope to hear from you soon!!

> Dear radio friends,
>
> I am very pleased to inform you that I have been able to catch the Radio
> Marabu signal on shortwave 6210 kHz yesterday evening. I started listening
> at 14:50 hrs UTC and stayed in tune until 15:20 hrs UTC on Saturday,
> October 6th, 2012.
>
> Your signal was good in noisy conditions. Just some fading hampered the
> listening pleasure a little bit. The SIO (Signal strength, Interference
> and Overall rating) was 3, 4, 3 (1-5, 5 is best).
>
> I enjoyed music such as:
>
> 14:52 hrs UTC: „Living a boy’s aadventuer“ by A-ha
> 15:08 hrs UTC: „Yesterdays song“ by Neil Diamond
>
> To prove reception and give you a better understanding of the reception
> quality here in the South of Sweden I have recorded a short clip. You will
> hear station identification with mail address at 15:08 hrs UTC.
>
> I have uploaded the clip to my own web server. You can save it or listen
> to it by navigating to this link: http://www.eriksson.info/dx/marabu.mp3
>
> If you find that the station heard to Radio Marabu I would appreciate an
> e-mail in return as a verification on listening in (an important thing for
> us DX-ers.).
>
> On the personal side I live my my family, wife and two teenagers, in
> Limhamn, a suburb to Malmö in the south of Sweden. I was an avid shortwave
> listener and DX-er back in the 1970’s. My interest in radio has never
> faded completely and I have tried to listen every now and then during the
> years.
>
> I know that a lot of other stations streaming their programs on the
> Internet, but that is certainly not the same as listening on air. Back in
> 2010 I got myself the Microtelecom Perseus SDR receiver and are now more
> active listening than ever before.
>
> Must say that I am proud of catching your signal with a PA0RDT Mini-Whip
> antenna.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Per Eriksson
> S-216 13 Limhamn
> Sweden

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Hello Radio Marabu, just a quick email to let you know I was listening to your broadcast yesterday on 6210 KHz. Signal and audio were both good and I had you playing in the background for most of the afternoon while I did some work around the house.
I enclose a reception report and maybe you can confirm it with your e-QSL if you have one.

Guten Tag! I’m one of your listeners Li Ming, as well as a radio hobby enthusiast coming from China. I consider myself fortunate to have heard your programmes over the internet this evening. It is quite amazing. The music you played is so beautiful and makes me feel relaxed. Now I have the pleasure to write in to send a report reception for your broadcast, in the hope that to assist your technical department to evaluate your live stream quality, and in the meantime to obtain a QSL card as memento.

Station: Radio Marabu
Receiver: Internet
Date: 08 December 2012
Time: 15.30-16.00 UTC
Technical Remarks: the streaming is very smooth, no buffering.
Program Details:
A woman DJ played lots of songs non-stop in the programme. (As I don’t understand German, for this reason I am attaching an mp3 clip of my catch of your broadcast at 15.40 UTC, it was about two minutes of duration. I am sending it to let you hear a good approximation of the audio that I got from your broadcast. Please have a listen by downloading it in the attachment. Thanks!)

If you find the information given in this report tallies with your station log, I would highly appreciate your signed QSL-verification card, sticker, brochure or any other promotional items by regular post if they are available. I have now received more than 100 different QSL cards from overseas broadcasters, I wish yours will also be part of my precious collections. I believe it will definitely be a nice remembrance of this contact with your station. Many thanks for your attention and cooperation in advance! I’m looking forward to hearing from you in the mail very soon. Ich danke Ihnen!

Hello from China again! With the very best compliment, I am sending you this short message to let you know that this morning I received your lovely QSL card, which I like very much, it now find its place in my QSL album! Many thanks again for your kind response to help me add my QSL collections! I’ll be tuning to your station in the future!

As may hobby is listening foreign radiostations on mediumwave, shortwave and FM Band , I am very proud of having been able to listen to your radiostation.
Tank you for the nice music, Wham is one of my favourit singer.

As my hobby is listening to remote radio and ham stations worldwide. I was very pleased to hear your station „Radio Marabu“ on 6210 khz
in English. I have been interested in remote radio stations since good twentyfive years and I´m member in ADDX since twentythree years.

My receivers are an Icom IC-R75 mod. and AOR AR-7030. I´m working with the magnetic active antenna Grahn GS5-SE with loops.

Could you please confirm (eQSL card) that it really was your station I was listening to. Thank you very much.

I am pleased to report that I heard your transmission as outlined below. This is the first time that I have heard you thus I was very pleased to do so.
I live in central Ohio which is 725 Km from the Atlantic ocean. So it is unusual for me to hear a signal from Europe at that time of day.

I live in Columbus, Ohio where I live with my wife of 25 years and our two cats. I work as a manufacturing engineer for a company that makes sensors.

I was listening to your broadcast on a Drake R8B receiver attached to an multi Band inverted vee dipole.

Feb. 3,2013

0102-0156 UTC
6.209792 MHz
25232

0104 DJ talking then into rock and roll
0117 Radio Marabu ID
0118 music with the line �it is a miracle�
0124 female R&B tune
0127 station ID
0132 op talking in German
0133 trumpet and them �hello�
0137 �Guten Tag� then mentioned you transmitting frequency
0146 ID
0151 a song with the line �Don�t just dream in your sleep it is lazy�
0152 �Honey� by Bobby Goldsboro
0156 David Bowe �Where are we now�

It is my hope that you will be kind enough to verify this report via a QSL.
I hope to hear you soon and I will continue to report when I do hear you.
Look forward to hearing from you

The 1 of February 2013 I had the plesure to hear your station
Radio Marabu on 6210 kHz between 17.25-18.00 local time.

Here are some details from your programme:
17.27 Music „All the love for you“
17.30 Identification „You are listen to Radio Marabu“
17.37 Music „For my love“
17.47 Music „Maneater“ Hall & Oates
17.48 Music „Time of life“
17.52 Music „Don´t go ready“

I heard your station with my radio AOR 7030+ and an outside wire
on 10 meter. Your station was heard with the SINPO-code 4-4-4-4-4.
Your modulation was dark so there wa problem to hear the music. The
music was unknown for me exept Hall & Oates.

I´m 52 years old and married with my wife Gunilla since 2003.
I have two stepdaughters and two grandsuns.

I live in a small city called Kävlinge with 9.000 inhabitants. Kävlinge are
situated in southwest of Sweden about 30 kilometer from Malmoe.

My interest are: listen to radio, sport, collect stamps and my dog
Chinook. Chinook are 4½ year old american collie.

Programme details :
18.50 UTC Music by the group Sounds
18.56 UTC Music “See Emily Play” by Pink Floyd

I´m 64 years old and I have been interested in DX-ing since 1971. Beside my radiohobby I´m
also interested in stampcollecting, postcards and music from the 50´s and 60´s.

If the information given in this report corresponds to your station log I would appreciate very
much your verification card (QSL) or a letter. Such a verification would also be a nice
remembrance of this contact with your station.

Hi,let e tell you that your broadcast was monitored by chance via shortwave on 12 April 2013 in 6210,2kHz.This is a rare moment for me to catch the signal of your broadcast due to the weak signal and the distance.I feel lucky to catch the signal of your broadcast althought the rception is poor.I send you the reception report below.Would you please kindly send me your verification.

Name Alex Torbeni

Address Jl Dewata 1 no 1A Denpasar Bali 80224 Indonesia

Antenna long wire

Receiver Tens sg 789

Date 12 April 2013

UTC 0015-0045

Frequency 6210,2 kHz

SINPO 14441

Programme details:

I just dropped in[to see what condition my condition was in],Young girl by Gary Puckett.

By the way,I like stamp collecting.Would you mind sending me any used stamps from any country? Please send me stamps as many as you can.I wish to receiv stamps from you.

Hello Sir. Currently listening to your broadcast on 6210 khz AM playing „Sonny“ with a solid S12 signal with good audio with just a slight over modulation via the Netherlands-based online SDR shortwave receiver. ID was at 0005utc. Enjoying the show very much, like the wide selection of music being played. This is a first time catch for me. Now playing Manhattan Transfer.. The online SDR allows myself to listen the wonderful world of European Pirates here in Minnesota, USA that otherwise I would not here. Thanks again for for great show! 73 my friends. Have a great weekend! Steve Olson „long Live Pirate Radio“

My name is per, and i have, according to many of my friends a strange hobby, I enjoy listening to short. or mediumwave stations from all over the world. All they hear from the loudspeakers is the noise, but to me radio over the borders open new horizons. I konow that a lot of stations streaming their programs over the internet, but that is certainly not the same as catching the signal on air.

I heard RADIO MARABU with nice music from JOHN LENNON and CHRISTOPHER OWENS. Thanks a lot for the nice music- Per from Malmö, Sweden.

Dear Sir,
Hi,let me tell you that your music broadcast was monitored by chance via the shortwave in 6210 kHz.Iam glad to be able to listen to your broadcast although the reception in my hometown is poor.I send you the reception report below.Please send me your verification card as soon as possible.

Hello Radio Marabu,
I am listening to your programme in Germany tonight with a good signal
on my small portable radio with a telescopic aerial.
My location is 80 miles west of London UK
Good reception this time, and also 2 other times i heard you.
All the best
Tom

Good evening.I am a 57 year old Italianradio listener, cook by profession,Married with Mariangela, I have 2 daughters, a daughter of 21 years graduate in Arabic and a daughter of 19 graduate graphic design and works For nearly 22 years listening to what I can and what I can from 0 30 MHz. I live in San Pellegrino Terme Province of Bergamo . For a year almost exclusively pirate.
Unfortunately they are ignorant of foreign languages and know a few of the musicbroadcast.
Touse this GOOGLE translator and attach audio files to show my ascolti.Le recordings are made with small MP3located approximately 25 cm from the speaker outside of the receiver, whose specifications are listed in the report of listening.
As a goodradio listener collect QSL cards of any kind, and public on facebook. I am hoping for your kind reply, I thank the attention and I cordially greet.Ciao ciao Franco Baroni
XAT Pirateradio2011—franco-SPT & franco-nord-italia
I enclose aCD with audio files, ratio of listening

I was very pleased to listen to your station on 06/07/2013, time from 2100 to 2125 UTC, on a frequency of 6309 (6308.8) kHz, mode AM.
Your transmission was in english language.
Program detais: punk/rock and some oldies. ID in english between songs.

Reception quality (SINPO): 45222
My reception site (QTH) is Giussano, near Milan, in Lombardy region, in north Italy.

Coordinates: 45°42′N 9°13′E

Locator: JN45OQ
My receiver is: ELAD FDM-S1
My antenna is: homebrew rybakov vertical
I hope this report could help as an indicator of your signal coverage. If you find my report correct I would be very glad if you could kindly confirm with an e-mail/QSL.

Thank you for your consideration and best wishes for your activity.
Kindest regards.
Fabiano Frosio

Music mix of various styles including Postcard From Paris –
Glen Campbell and a cover of Not Fade Away (unsure which
version this is).
Regular station id’s and jingles heard also.

SINPO: 35333

Overall fair to good reception, random fading and slight transmitter hum. I have
also included a short recording of part of the transmission in mp3 format to give
a better indication of the quality of reception.

As a keen shortwave listener and DXer I enjoy the challenge of receiving
distant stations such as your own and I hope this report will provide some
technical assistance. If possible a QSL card or eqsl would be highly
appreciated upon correct verification of the information contained within
this report.

I would like to ask you. Were you on the air at 6305 kHz around 19:00 on September 3, 2013. I caught the very weak signal in this time.
However, although it sometimes became sound, it was very weak and it difficult to readable. I had replayed my recording several times and
it was presumed at last that it was you. It was not German, but in English. Therefore, it may not be you.
However, it is not confident in the state of a mishearing. If not on the air, this mail will ask you for cancellation.
Although I looked for some information of the Pirates, the information on this time was not found.
Therefore, I wanted to check the origin of this signal and mailed to you.

Since my recording was attached, please hear it.
It was : on 6305 kHz on Sep.3,2013 from 19.02 UTC to 19.05.20 UTC
But it is the mishearing level which included presumption considerably. As the file is very poor and noisy,
I wish you to listen in careful by an ear-headphone on your personal computer. I am very pleased if you can know this reception condition in Japan
Reception can be summarized, in SINPO code,
19.02-19.05.20 UTC; SINPO-2-1,5,2,2,2-1; the grade which can sometimes be heard

I heard as follows; but included presumption considerably
From 19.02 UTC; announcement read by a male announcer
Cf. the file of „63050903190250.MP3“ from 19.02.50 UTC
At 0’04” from the start; announcement of „all listener“
At 0’29” from the start; announcement of “ good fine listener”
At 0’49” from the start; announcement of „Radio Marabu”
At 1’07” from the start; announcement of “ Marabu info-magazine”
At 1’35” from the start; announcement of “ interview magazine”
At 1’48” from the start; announcement of “ Marabu international”
At 1’56” from the start; announcement of „Marabu ….”
At 2’19” from the start; announcement of “ looks Italy Marabu international”
At 2’25” from the start; announcement of “ goodbye listener”
And at 19.05.20 UTC: sign off
This is all announcements that I had found your voice within severe noise.

My equipment was PERSEUS. Antenna was ALA1530 at 8 meters high.
My location is in Nagoya City of the 3rd large populations in Japan, so very noisy.

Now I can hear of European pirates on 49mb. It regards me as the influence of Gray Line. It has the peak on about 19.00UTC now.
For me, it is an occurrence for the first time in seven years that those Pirates can be heard on 49mb.
So I think that I may be audible if on the air at this time.
I would like to meet you again on 49mb.

> Radio Marabu . I’m listening to your station on 6304.75 Khz AM. This was
> on Sept14 15’13 at 2322-0007 UTC . Conditions are very noisy and your
> signal is S2/3. I use aJRC 535D R f Systems Mk 2 antenna with a MFJ 959c
> tuner /preamp. I heard R. Marabu in 1993 on 7415via relay . Could this
> have been station back then ? Would love to receive your QSL as Euros are
> hard for me to hear here in Ohio . Details follow .
> 2322 OP with ID into music ?
> 2324 OP Back more music
> 2338 Op music
> 2348 Astronaut “ Joel Compass
> more music end of log 0007.
> You are still on at 0015.
> Hope you QSL
> Thanks
> Harry L. Smith
> Springfield,Ohio
> U S A

Hello from Argenteuil in France,
Using the Web SDR of Twente (NL), I am listening to Radio Marabu on
6304.83 KHz SINPO ~55544http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/
I am following your programme about American songs, Music hall, etc. Dean
Martin …
Do you send QSL Card? I would be please to receive one.
Thanks. Kind regards
Paul JAMET

I am very happy to report that I heard your signal each night this past weekend on 6305 kHz in Newfoundland, Canada

Reception was weak, but quite clear, although there was occasional ssb and utility QRM. Your signal faded in a couple of hours before sunset, and lasted past 0100 each night, which was as late as I listened. Although I tend to scan through the various stations, I probably spent a couple hours listening to your programming. Thanks for the great music and the very professional production. Sounded great!

I have heard you on the air a few times before, but did not know a contact to send a report.

I have attached my best audio file, which covers 1924-1932 UTC on Sunday night, October 27. What makes this particularly remarkable was that it was recorded one hour before local sunset. Yur signal was good, and QRM/noise was at a low level.

I hope that you are able to identify your signal on the audio file. If so, I would very much appreciate a QSL if you are able to confirm my reception. If you do not have a QSL card, an email confirmation of reception would also be appreciated.

I am located about 50 km from the most easterly point in North America. If you would like to see my location, search „Garden Place, Conception Bay South, Canada“ in Google maps. I am fortunate to live in a quiet area (for electrical noise), and I have large area of trees behind my house, with lots of room for antennas.

I have been listening to pirate stations on shortwave and mediumwave for over 4 years, and I have become completely addicted! . I traveled to the Europirate summermeeting in 2010, and plan to return next year.

My receiver is an Sony SW7600G the antenna used is single wire with a length of 60 meters.
I am live in Rendeux on the Belgium Ardennes, about 100-km south east of the town Brussels.
I am an aged of 64 years and DX with radio for 50 years.

At 2005 I receive a QSL card from Radio Marabu on a transmission at the Netrherlands on 1602 kHz.
I send you a picture of that QSL.

Radio Marabu, Just a short reception report on your program on 6070 at 20.35-2055 UTC with SINPO 33333 with some QRM and varied strength, some times you hear the words singing, and sometimes not .My reeiver Sangean ATS 909. Some points from programme: 2041 UTC Song/music 2044 New mwlody 2046 Male announcer 2048 new melody song and 20 51 song by girl
My name : Mr Claes-W. Englund, Danderyd, Sweden

Greetings!
I am writing to you in regards to my reception of what I believe was a Christmas broadcast from your station, Radio Marabu. Reception was rather poor and I was able to pick up only a few details, but was able to identify one of the songs played. I live in Springfield, Massachusetts in the USA and I have recently returned to shortwave listening after an absence of almost 20 years. Over the last couple of months, I have found that things have changed quite a bit…not as many broadcasters on now. I guess the internet has changed all of that, but I still prefer the old fashioned way….listening on the radio! I have included below a rather poorly detailed report, but I figured I would let you know what I did hear. I wasn’t sure what station I was listening to, but I found some information that this broadcast on 6305 KHZ was from Radio Marabu and your 3 day Christmas special. If you find that my report is of any merit, I would be very pleased to receive any kind of QSL, either postal or eQSL. I have spent a good amount of time logging over 2 dozen USA pirate stations in the 6920-6950 KHZ range, and also a few European pirates in the 6240-6305 KHZ range. I have received verifications from Frans at Borderhunter Radio and also from Radio Waves International recently. I have also logged 2 others but reception was not very good at all. European free radio stations sure are difficult to hear from my location!

I am 58 years old and employed at a local forge shop (since 1977) and was very active in shortwave listening as a youth in the mid 1960’s and again from 1981 until 1992 when I put the shortwave radio away. Now I am back again and look forward to several more years of listening! My radio is a JRC-515 and my antenna is a 75 foot random longwire into an MFJ-901B antenna tuner. My Marantz PMD-430 tape recorder keeps „eating“ the tapes, so I am currently unable to record my receptions. I hope to be able to record directly to my computer in the next month or so, and am reading up on that. I wish I could send you a mp3 of my reception, but alas it is not to be. I see that there are lots of internet websites, including your Radio Marabu site. Back in the 1980’s, things weren’t quite so easy! I logged and verified several US pirates then. I also logged and verified Radio Dublin on 6910 and Weekend Music Radio on 6240 from Scotland in the 1980’s. So, I am looking forward to your kind response to my report. Again, sorry for the scant details! Wishing you the best of the rest of a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I remain,
Sincerely yours,

Christopher Bagge
Springfield, MA
01104 USA
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Reception Report:Radio Marabu on 6305 KHZ from 0713 UTC-0734 UTC:12/25/2013
SINPO-24322 at best. Signal would get better for several seconds, then fade out again. I lost signal at 0734…probably from sunrise at your location.
0713 UTC Song „Rock & Roll Girl by John Fogerty“ in progress
0715 UTC Song „1980’s Pop song I don’t know the name of
0718 UTC Song (one of the lines to the song was „Roll down the window“) man singer.
0723-0727 UTC Signal too weak to copy
0727 UTC Man announcer in either Dutch or German language then Unid Song
0733 UTC Man announcer followed by an R&B song until I lost signal at 0734
————————————————————————————————————————

I had the great pleasure of monitoring transmissions from RADIO MARABU on 6305 kHz, from Madrid, Spain, during 25 minutes, between 09.00 to 09.25 UTC. The musical program contains among other songs:

Sonsick, by San Fermin
My zero, by Ezra Furman
When we was fab, by George Harrison
Penny lane, by The Beatles
Another toe in the ocean, by Pixies
Today was the first time I’ve heard your program and I want to congratulate you for the amazing music!!!

Dear Reiner Palma,
happy to listening your station newly. Here is a little report for your statistic
date 8-3-2014 frequency 6304-6305 not sure about the exact frequency UTC 1825-1855 sinpo 24232 poor signal, no interferences from other stations but I get a big local noise all the time, impossible to enjoy the show confortably
antenna was 10 m line at the terrace.Listening at home in downtown
details: this was Sunny, dance style. 1830 Your comments and Boney M. Show was moderated in German, then complicate to understand you . 1832 your comment and Lady pop, a disco girl song 1835 Identification, jingle promos. 1836 funky girl ballad. 1839 your comments and Nirvana: Smells like teen spirit. 1844 comments and blues rock: I see the light 1850 comments and The letter from The box Tops. 1851 new ID the box in Belm and funky girl. don’t noted more details.
Hope you like the report. I will try to get your signal this afternoon from the cottage.outside town.
Thanks for the music and friendship over the years
Best regards from sunny Catalonia
Silveri

It was great listening to Radio Marabu most of yesterday afternoon, programmes were in German
On 6305 kHz shortwave, I started listening at around 12.15 GMT although I didn’t note any details down, I could give you a SINPO code rating of 44444, I’m using a thirty year old JRC NRD 525 and the antenna was a Wellbrook ARA-1530 which is mounted on a one metre pole on the patio in the garden.
I have been listening to Radio Marabu for many many years and it was a very pleasant and welcomed surprise to listen again.
I would be very interested in one of your QSL card’s and a sticker, would be great?
My best wishes to everyone involved and keep up the good work
Regards
Patrick Travers
Sheffield,
ENGLAND

Last weekend and over the Easter, I’m participating in the Pirate contest (see more http://ndl-dx.se/piratjakten/index.htm). Yesterday, I heard your station here in Norrkoping, Sweden. Long time since I heard you for the first time and I haven´t heard you lately. The reception today here at my QTH was fair and the overall reception this day was very poor.

If this report is okay, I would greatly appreciate receiving your verification and since I’m editor for a column with FR news in a Scandinavian DX-magazine, it would be great if you could send me some new info about your station.

Hello Reiner,
thanks for your kind tip announcing the shows.
No problem to sent you some reports
take a look
date 18-4-2014 frequency 6239 khz UTC 1530-1550 sinpo 24322 some fading, no interferences, some local noise
receiver was Degen DE 1103 with telescopic antenna.Listening at the cottage outside town.
details: this was som epop, then a ballad girl, 1540 pop rock 1543 jingle, ID, auf kurzwelle… more ballad by man,. 1550 ID and R Marabu promo. don’t noted more details

date 19-4-2014 frequency 6239 khz UTC 0710-0725 sinpo 24322 increasing noise and fading with the big sun in the horizon.Same Kenwood R 2000 antenna, and listening place.
details: this was a ballad by man, then the dj and pop 0915 jingle ID, pop funky 0718 new ID and ballad pop,. 1722 ID and blues man. don’t noted more details. It’s complicate to understand your dj if you don’t speak German….. my problem.,
Not sure if you will be issuing some kind of eqsl confirmation,
Thanks for the music and friendship over the years
Take care and have a great Easter celebrations.
Best regards from Catalonia
Silveri

If this ratio listening coincides with the data of your registry station, i ask you the courtesy to send the QSL card will be retained as evidence of reception.
With the wish me to listen to you as soon as possible, i send a cordial greeting to staff of Radio Marabu.

Programme details:
The programme consisted of music and announcements.
Among other announcements the station identification was heard at 5,46.
At 5,46 the song “Malonius”
At 5,51 a song in which I heard something with “… by numbers” again and again.
At 5,55 another song (male voice)
At 6,01 a longer announcement. Again I heard a station identification.
At 6,04 a song which was called “The world of loud”
At 6,07 another song (by a woman)
At 6,11 a song (male voice)
At 6,14 an instrumental title

I heard your station on my Sony ICF 2001D receiver with the built-in telescopic antenna.

I would really be very glad to receive your QSL.

Hoping to hear from you soon I send you best wishes from Germany, Kurt Enders

Gud afternoon dear friends of radio Marabu and very happy to listen your emission in date of 27 june 2014 at 19h33utc on 6240 khz with reception sinpo of 43433 and the 28 june at 17h08utc on 6240 khz sinpo 34433 and also the 29 june at 07h20utc on 6240khz sinpo 33333 on my receiver satellit 750 antenna mini whip and pictures of my station ; j am located in the city of Lorient in Bretagne (on the picture map is number 56 in green ) ; very beautiful musical program and please can you send me your qsl , j listen shortwaves since 1968 and free radio since 2 months ;
J hope to meet you again and best regards to the team of your radio ; gud luckin free radio best regards from France
best regards
Mr Monplot jean marie
7 rue de siam
56100 Lorient
France

Hello and greetings from Malaysia! I’m pleased to inform you that on 8 August 2014 I had the good fortune to hear Radio Marabu on the short-wave frequency of 6.240 kHz via a remote SDR receiver located in the Netherlands.

Should my reception report of your transmission I monitored from 14.30 to 15.15 UTC be correct, I hope you will be kind enough to send your QSL card / eQSL to me. It would be very much appreciated.

I look forward to hearing from you soon, and listening to your alternative music in future now that I’ve discovered your station. Enjoyed the selection on music! Thank you!

Hello dear friends of free radio MARABU and very happy to listen your radio in date of 10 august 2014 on the frequency of 6240 khz at 18H32 utc and reception sinpo of 34323 ; j listen your musical program radio very interesting .

J am located in the west of France in the city of Lorient in the country of Bretagne in France ( j send you a french map , j am in the number 56 in green on the map ) ; my reception station is a Satellit Eton 750 and antenna is mini whip or a long wire antenna (pictures of the station), j listen also by web SDR Twente.

J listen shortwaves since 1968 , the broadcast and now free radios since 3 months . J am also radioamator with the call F5NLX in télégraphy at 95% ; antenna for emission is a dipole 2X10m and power 80 watts about.

My collection of QSL since 1968 is about 15 000 qsl all over thee world and please can you send me your QSL card for collection of free radio, many thanks-

J hope to meet you again in different week end and best regards to all the team of the radio and congratulations for free radio music; gud luck with radio and best regards

Today was a nice reception of your station on 6 Mhz.
I’m from Belgium my locator is JO21LH that 40 Km from Antwerpen.
The local time 12:50u Sunday with S7 reception.
I use my Racal RA17L to listen BC.
I send my QSL card in the mail.

Hi your broadcast on 6.240mhz is being well received here in Stoke on Trent UK. I heard the record -Autumn in New York between 13:14 and 13:17 hours GMT. I am using a Philips valve radio, model 805A/15 year of manufacture 1940 connected to 5 metre vertical antennae via matching transformer.I am hoping that you can verify my reception report and send a Qsl card ,thank you and good luck with your broadcasting regards Simon.

At first lat to introduce me. I’m a 71 old engineer at the moment pensioner. In my free time I like to listen to the radio. This is my hobby since 1959. Till now I received QSL cards or verification letters from many radio stations. In god propagation conditions (ionization of the E layer of the ionosphere) I received FM radio stations from a distance of 2000 km.
Now I received your radio station on short wave.
If it is possible, please confirm my reception report with your QSL card, a letter or e-mail. I have a nice collection of pennants and stickers from different radio station. If it is possible please send to me.

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Dear friend,
I am fond of international radios. My name is Massimo, I’m 54 years old and for 39 years
I have had a hobby: listening to broadcasting stations from all over the world.
I live in a village ten kilometers south to thr city of Brescia, a city in the north of Italy (100 kilometers East to Milano).
I am writing you this letter in order to communicate you that I have had the chance to listen to your radio and I would be pleased to keep in touch with you and to know better your broadcasting station, your listeners, your culture and your way of living..
I born in the city of Milano in february 1960, but since 1985 for work reason, living in province of Brescia. Now I have a little firm of trasport of Bancary documents. This activity is very demanding and obliges me to to dedicate myself to my hobbyes only during the weekends.
I’m single and listening the radio from 1975. I heard radio station all over the World. In my shack eport You can see my receiver Plessey and a home made receiver expecially built for difficoult reception in Medium Wave, a old recorder Technics, a old portable computer for RTTY (Radio tele Type) message and a computer for reception of Radiofax meteo and SSTV radioimagines. I rarely operative in CB and utilising the VHF Band for collegament with My Family in Milano City. A home made loop and log-periodic for VHF complete my Listening Station. For external operations, (DX Expedition) I use 2 x 440 Metres Beverage and 3 EWE for MW and a big T2FD for SW and tropical bands
In this E-Mail You can see a details of my reception, a reception report and I hope You can confirmed with a letter or a E-QSL Card, if avaliable.
I hope that this report will be interesting for your department.
Anyway I think you will be pride to know that your broadcasting station is listened also by some people who live very far from you and that your fame exceeds every border.

Thank you very much for your attention. I hope I will receive your news soon.
Meanwhile I wish you a good work and see you soon.
A strong hug from your radio listener friend living in the far Italy.

Dear Friend
I had the great pleasure to receive your Radio Station in date 10/10/2014 in a program english language in frequency of KHz 6239.20 from 18’15 to 18’40 Date and time in CET Time.
For valutation of Your signal I utilize a SINFO Code: 35233 Signal sufficent, without interference, noise strong, fading moderate and overral merit sufficent
______________________________________________________________________________
Interference from Radio: on Khz:
Athmospheric conditions: rain Propagation conditions:
Note: Sufficent signal for heard Your programme in Italy in this day.
Details, 18’15 Program very good of classic rock songs 18’30 Jetro tull song!
To prove that I really listened to your station I Including a MP3 file. For heard your Programme I utilize a professional receiver Plessey PR 2250 and homemade directive coaxial loop antenna with lenght of 8 meters placed on rotor outdoor at 11 meters above the ground.
My location is Montirone a village 15 Km south of Brescia (North Italy) with geographic coordinate is 45° 26’ 37/N – 10° 13’ 46/E,
Sea level 80 Metres and inhabit. 5000 with area of 11Km.
If this reception report correspond at Your station log, I’m very happy to receive a confirmation letter or if disponible Your E-QSL Card or a E-Mail. Thank’s in advance for Your attention. Your friend.
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I am very happy to report that I listened Radio Marabù the 11/10/2014 at 16:02 UTC on 6240 Khz.
The signal was good, S9 in the receiver, no interference, some qrm, good audio and modulation, SINPO 44343.

I am 42 years old and live in the Northeast of Italy, in a small city that was known for the presence of the military usaf airport of Aviano.
I have the hobby of radio since 1990.
For many years I have dedicated myself to listen all was possible, then in 2006 I became a ham radio operator but after two years of activity
I have returned to devote much of my free time to listening broadcat and utility stations.
I like to build antennas and small electronic circuits, for this I place a small basic instrumentation.
For my radio hobby i use sdr receivers like Perseus and Elad FDM-S2 (both the producers of these two wonderful radio
are located at 50 Km from my city), Icom IC-R9000 and IC-R72 and many ham rtx like Kenwood TS-990.
My antenna are loop Ala 1530, dynamic Yagi Ultrabem UB-50, Vertical dipole Gap Titan dx and many wires antenna.

In the hope that this information will can be usefulIf, if this report matches your station log I would great appreciate
if you can send me a eQSL or email to confirm the listening of your radio station.

Thanks for the good music, I hope to listen again your radio station very soon.

The program was hosted by a male announcer, speaking mainly in German. The songs played were primarily alternative rock songs and there were, occasionally, long discourses by the announcer. Although I didn’t recognize many songs, I did clearly identify a few of them, such as at 0328 UTC you played the pop ballad by the band Chicago, “Hard to Say I’m Sorry”. And then after a brief announcement, you doubled-up and played a second song by Chicago, “25 or 6 to 4”. I also recognized a song at 0346, by Glen Frey of The Eagles, “The One You Love”.
Sirs, I am a recently retired business executive who lived for many years in Asia, working in the petroleum industry. I am very familiar with international political and economic issues and political issues, and find listening to shortwave radio is a good way to stay in touch with the world. For 25 years, until retiring in 2010, I have lived in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Philippines, Korea, Thailand/Laos. It was very enjoyable to hear your programming and I salute you for the work you are doing. Thanks for a fun show and the thrill of hearing your low power station from so distant a location in Europe!
I have diligently pursued shortwave radio monitoring since 1967 and have provided reports to hundreds of radio stations through the years.
It would be a HUGE honor to receive a QSL card or an eQSL from Radio Marabu. This would be a wonderful memento, to add to my collection! I would also be very pleased to add your station to the list of client stations that I serve with continued follow-up monitoring, should you desire this. Please accept my fond wishes for your station’s future success!

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hi Reiner,
thanks for the tip.
I was listening you this afternoon at the cottage outside town with the little Degen DE1103 and telescopic antenna.
sinpo 24332 at 1510 utc freq 6239 khz

Now at home with the Kenwood R 2000 and 10 m line antennna, freq 6239 Khz, utc 1910 sinpo 24332
At this moment a girl with Dancing at the end of love… great music,
thanks
have a great weekend
Best regards from Catalonia
Silveri

I can report that I possibly have heard Radio Marabu 6239 kc/s on the 29th of November 2014 at 18.08 UTC/GMT.
Saw a hint about it on a chat…..
Enclosed you can find an audio clip and also a reception report. Perhaps you can recognize the programme.
I should be very glad to receive a confirmation of the reception (if this really is Radio Marabu).
Thanks in advance!

On 28 November 2014, I had the good fortune to catch Radio Marabu on the shortwave frequency of 6.239 kHz. Your transmission was monitored from 18.20 till 19.00 UTC, and included a collection of old and new songs, including jazz, rap, pop and easy listening. Should my reception report of this broadcast be correct, I would very much appreciate your QSL.

Content of broadcast from 18.20 to 19.00 UTC:
Marlene Dietrich – „Lillie Marlene“, commentary/discussion between two women, song „Julia“, German language rap song, Annie Lennox – „Thorn In My Side“, Aretha Franklin – „Say A Little Prayer For You“, „No Love for Nobody Else“, Robert Plant – „House of Love“, one more song and then abrupt, unannounced sign off

Receiver used: a remote SDR receiver linked to the University of Twente (The Netherlands) website and monitored from a Samsung Galaxy 3 in Malaysia

I am very happy to report that I listened Radio Marabù the 29/11/2014 at 19:53 UTC on 6239 Khz.
The signal was S9+ in the receiver, no qrm, light qsb, no interference.
Good audio and modulation, SINPO 55444.

I am 42 years old and live in the Northeast of Italy, in a small city that was known for the presence of the military usaf airport of Aviano.
I have the hobby of radio since 1990.
For many years I have dedicated myself to listen all was possible, then in 2006 I became a ham radio operator but after two years of activity
I have returned to devote much of my free time to listening broadcat and utility stations.
I like to build antennas and small electronic circuits, for this I place a small basic instrumentation.
For my radio hobby i use sdr receivers like Perseus and Elad FDM-S2 (both the producers of these two wonderful radio
are located at 50 Km from my city), Icom IC-R9000 and IC-R72 and many ham rtx like Kenwood TS-990.
My antenna are loop Ala 1530, dynamic Yagi Ultrabem UB-50, Vertical dipole Gap Titan dx and many wires antenna.

In the hope that this information will can be useful, if this report matches your station log I would great appreciate
if you can send me a eQSL or email to confirm the listening of your radio station.

Thanks for the good music, I hope to listen again your radio station very soon.

Dear Sirs,
with pleasure I send you a reception report for your transmission today 30-11-2014 on 6.239,1 KHz . I received your station in North Italy with good signal.
I hope to receive a confirmation for this reception report.
Thank you ! Best wishes and good transmissions.
Alessandro

Hello dear friends of radio Marabu and many thanks fer qsl and letters received by post , very happy to listen your emission again in date of the 7 december 2014 between 16h50 utc to 17h19utc on the frequency of 6240 khz and reception sinpo of 34433 in my city of Lorient in the west of the France (number 56 in green on the french map who j send ) ; my receiver is an satellit 750 and antenna miniwhip and also long wire ( j send picture )
J listen shortwaves since 1968 all over the world and collection of qsl ; j begin in free radio since few months and happy to listen news station „pirates “ !!! Very good work, it must be great to make of the radio transmission(program); for me I make of the emission but in radio ham with my area code F5NLX and mainly there telegraphy cw
J send you détails of emission :
1650 to 1658 music and sond and at 1658 lady talk about radio marabu , lady speak with people by telephone and ring telephone , and the program with beautiful song and lady speak about this song !!

Please , can you send me qsl card by e-mail ; j also visite your web site but j don’t speak german language ; pictures of my activity in radioamateur with the call F5NLX (power 80 watts and antenna dipole)
In the meantime, I wish you a lot of pleasure in the radio transmission(program), in the pleasure to listen to you again and all my friendships
Sincere friendships and good day friendly
Best regards
Mr Monplot jean marie

I am a radio enthusiast from Västerås, Sweden, who listened to your radio station on Saturday the 6th of December 2014 at 20.30 – 21.00 UTC (21.30 – 22.00 Western European Time) hours on 6239 kHz.

Your station was heard with fair signal strength and practically no interference from other stations. A slight noise was present, and the fading was moderate. As an overall merit I would like to say that Radio Marabu was heard with fair to good audibility, or SINPO 35433.

The reception was achieved by means of JRC NRD-535 communications receiver, which is a rather advanced set made in the late nineties. It was connected to a longwire antenna, 600 metres long, and directed southeastwards. I listened to your station in the countryside at Skärblacka (58° 34′ 54″ N, 15° 54′ 51″ E) which is a village situated some 20 kilometres from Norrköping. Or about 170 kilometres from Stockholm.

To prove my reception I attach an MP3 file with an excerpt of your programme. There are station ids in the first few seconds.

Thank you very much for your programme! By the way, I listened to your station in the morning of Sunday December 7 too on the same frequency. The reception quality was about the same.

I am 57 years old and work as a consultant at Capgemini here in Västerås, which is a town of some 145 000 inhabitants situated about 100 kilometres west northwest of Stockholm.

If you consider the details given in this report as sufficient for an identification of your station, I would like very much to obtain your confirmation of my reception by a reply to this email which states that I have listened to Radio Marabu.

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a radio listener, very interested in stations all over the world. I have been listened to far radio stations for more than 35 years.
About me? Well I live near Madrid, I am 54 years old and I work as chemical engineer.
I am on Holiday out Madrid in a rural area without electromagnetic pollution and fortunately I caught your station
I am sorry but my English is terrible.

Heya great website! Does running a blog such as this take a lot of work?
I’ve absolutely no knowledge of computer programming however I had been hoping to start my own blog in the near future.
Anyways, if you have any recommendations or tips for new blog
owners please share. I understand this is off
subject but I simply needed to ask. Thanks a lot!

Hello Marabu staff,
If my report is correct, I hope that you will verify it by your QSL or eQSL card .
My name is ZDENEK. I’m 67 years old, married and a work as a maintenance man in the technical school.
Jablonec nad Nisou, a town of 47 thousand inhabitants, lying in Northern Bohemia in a valley of the Jizerske Hills on the River Nisa.
May I thank you very much for your help and kind attention and I wish you and the staff of your department all the best for the future.
Yours Sincerely, Zdenek Elias

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know I’m hearing you 12/25/14 on 6.240. I started listening at 0543 UTC when you were playing „You are the Girl.“ Your male dj said something about Simon calling from space and gave the Id „This is Radio Marabu.“ I listened for about 20 minutes and I didn’t recognize any other songs. There was what appeared to be a station ID spoken by a little girl at 0609. There were many IDs in different languages at 0614.

Im a 45 years old Dx-er from Sweden.I Went back to dxing in 2014 and
especielly listen to pirates because its often good musisc as you played
this afternoon.
If the info given in this report would be founded correct I would be very happy
if I could receive your verification by email qsl-card /letter.
This would be a nice memory from this Contact with your station.
I hope can listen to your station soon again

Hello Maribu . I’ve been listening to your station on 6254 KHz AM since 2353 UTC still listening at 0103 UTC This was on March 14/15 2015 Signal was good S3/5 but a little noisy at times but for my location Mid West USA I’m very pleased. I use a JRC 535d receiver and a RF Systems MK 2 antenna with a MFJ 959C tuner /amp This report will be for 0001-0020 UTC March 15’15 . On 21.03 1993 on 7415Khz I logged via us relay R Maribu . This station used this address Postfach 22 03 42 5600 Wuppertal 22 Are you the same station as that one or a different Radio Maribu ? I even have the music list from the broadcast. Would love to receive your QSL for this report details of which follow .March 15/15 0001 ID „Make me feel better “ Alex Adair
0004 ID „Ballald of the mighty“ Noel Gallaher High flying birds
0013 „Light My Fire “ The doors
0017 Song ?
0020 „Weight of love “ The black keys

Thanks for the superb program still on at 0121 UTC .
Hope to hear from you soon .
Harry L. Smith

Thank you for the qsl received in reply to my report sent by post last year.

I thought this time I would send you a couple of reports by email that I hope would be of some interest to you:

I first heard you yesterday 15th March 2015 from 10.00 to 11.00 utc on 6255 with a SINPO rating of 45444. Frequency was clear of any interference at this time.

I heard you on a Grundig DLX 450 receiver with telescopic rod antenna.

Soon after tuning in the song ‘everybody’ was featured and later at 10.15 a number of i.d’s were given including English. At 10.30 a rock track was featured followed by a folksy type song. Another rock tracks were played later including ‘on my way’ and before 11.00 a comedy song by a female singer was featured.

I heard you again later in the day from 16.30 to 17.15 utc again on 6255 kHz with a SINPO of 45343. Frequency was again clear of any interference but did suffer some moderate qrn at times that did spoil the enjoyment of the show.

This time I heard you on an Eton satellit 750 receiver with a telescopic rod antenna.

After some i.d’s at 16.30 there was a mention of the singer Vicky Leandros. This was followed by an instrumental type track and then 3 rock songs. At 16.45 more i’‘.d’s and then a mention of Radio Luxembourg. Some of the tracks that followed included ‘I’m ready’ ‘’and ‘what would you do’. Later at 17.10 there was a short interview with a female singer followed by one of her songs.

Although most of your programming is presented in German it’s always good to hear Marabu on shortwave because of the wide variety of music you feature many of which are not heard elsewhere.

I continue to hear you at my home in Padiham, a small town in the northwest of England, in the county of Lancashire.

I hope it will not be too long before you are back on shortwave with another weekend of great music.

Once again hoping my reports are of some interest. I would be very grateful if you are able to spare the time to verify.

Hello Radio Marabu,
I heard your broadcast on 4/4/15 on 6254 am from 1749 to 1838 UTC.
I’m from Albuquerque, New Mexico, a southwestern US state, but am listening via a software defined receiver at websdr.org. The owner’s callsign is G4FPH and it’s located in central England. He describes his antenna as: „HB HF up-converter and RTL dongle / dipoles“. Your signal improved throughout the time I listened, and I’d rate it a 33223 at the end. It was somewhat noisy and briefly interrupted by utilities.

I heard commentary in both English and I presume German. Songs you played that I recognized: an instrumental version of Eleanor Rigby, Fight For Your Right to Party (but not by Beastie Boys), I’m Looking for a New Love; 100% Pure Love. I heard several clear station IDs and your email address.

If data reception is correct, I will be glad to receive from your new radio „Radio Marabu“ QSL card.
Good luck to your team and good audibility gear! 73! Vladimir Yaroshik. Kaliningrad, Russian Federation

I am 42 years old and live in the Northeast of Italy, in a small city that was known for the presence of the military usaf airport of Aviano.
I have the hobby of radio since 1990.
For many years I have dedicated myself to listen all was possible, then in 2006 I became a ham radio operator but after two years of activity
I have returned to devote much of my free time to listening broadcat and utility stations.
I like to build antennas and small electronic circuits, for this I place a small basic instrumentation.
For my radio hobby i use sdr receivers like Perseus and Elad FDM-S2 (both the producers of these two wonderful radio
are located at 50 Km from my city), Icom IC-R9000 and IC-R72 and many ham rtx like Kenwood TS-990.
My antenna are loop Ala 1530, dynamic Yagi Ultrabem UB-50, Vertical dipole Gap Titan dx and many wires antenna.

In the hope that this information will can be useful, if this report matches your station log I would great appreciate
if you can send me a eQSL or email to confirm the listening of your radio station.

Thanks for the good music, I hope to listen again your radio station very soon.

My name is Arvid Husdal, and I am a 49 year old radioenthusiast from
Kristiansand, far south in Norway.
I am married to Bente, we have no kids.
My work is nursing, in the Kristiansand county „home nursing“.
The reason for me writing this mail to you, is my hobby, dx-listening. My big interest is radio reception of far away signals from Europe and also around the globe. Pirate Radio on FM, MW and SW has always had a place in my heart for many years now 🙂

I have enclosed a recording of the signal received, here are the details of reception:

Date: 05.04.2015
Time: 16.29- UTC

Frequency: 6255 kHz
Receiver: Sangean ATS909

Antenna: Longwire, 10m wire, „sloped“, coax fed.

*As usual it is nice to listen to Radio Marabu. You put up a great show, and it was cozy to sit on my balcony, wrapped in a blanket, drinking the Nice cup of coffee and feel the warmth of the coffee, the small „Mariakorn“ sips – and to enjoy the cool show from Radio Marabu ! *

Program details
– talk by man about political issue
– music
„Rennsteiglied“ by Herbert Roth
„Talkin Bout A Revolution“ by Tracy Chapman
„Himmelblau“ by Ines Paulke

Language broadcast: German

Interferences noted: SINPO 45444.
Your signal was strong. There was no interfering.
And, the singal faded up and down slightly.

Receiver: in Japan via WebSDR receiver of Twente
University in the Netherlands

My impressions of your programs: This is the
first time that I heard your programm. I sorry but
I couldn’t understand the contents of the talking
in German because my knowledge of German is poor.
Recently, I’m intersted in the receiving European
pirate stations. Today I’m happy I catched your
signal and enjoyed cool music you choiced. I hope
listen to your program again soon!

If the details in this report are found to
correspond with your station log, I would
appreciate very much to receive your verification
card or your letter. Such a document would also
serve as a nice remembrance of contact with your
station.

Kindly accept the reception report of Radio Marabu heard on 28 June 2015
UTC 1505 at 6254 kHz

Heard couple of songs followed by some heavy interference. I am not sure
what would be the cause of the interference. I have recorded the reception
for verifying purpose. The reception was fair to poor with lots of noises
and fading. Overall i was able to listen the reception with high volume.

Hello my friend. Was tuning around on the Twente SDR and caught your show
on 6255 AM with a S15 and great audio. Been listening since 2300 and
enjoying the show very much. ID’s at 2307 and 2320. Been enjoying the music
very much. I live here in St Paul, MN USA and enjoy using the Twente SDR to
listen to European Free radio here. Also get your newsletter and really
like that alot. Gotten new tunes on the Ipod from the newsletter. Thanks
for the show, really glad I caught it. Have a great week! Steve

Hello! My name is Antonio, live in Italy (Valle d’Aosta – Aosta
Valley) I am an swl since 1992. I like the utility station and Ndb, but
recently also the Pirate Station. I listen your program on 6254 Khz at
the 22.00 UTC. Compliments for the music selection but he Signal is many
disturbed by many qrm and evanescence. The SINPO code is 23222. My rx is
the model ICOM IC R71E for the hf and ICOM ICR 7000 for the vhf and uhf.
My antenna is a Miniwhip and a vertical dual-band for the vhf. I should
be very gratefulto receive your QSL. I enclose a file audio of your
station

I am very happy to submit my reception report of Radio Marabu’s broadcast this afternoon 14 August 2015, from 1457 to 1518+ UTC. I tuned in on 6254 kHz – via the SDR online at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. I live in New York and could not otherwise receive your broadcast under normal conditions (via my Sangean ATS 909 receiver)! The signal strength was very good and weather-related noise was minimal. I would give the reception an overall SINPO of 55445.

I hope this is enough information on the Radio Marabu broadcast. I also hope that you can reply to this email and send me an eQSL (or QSL card) to confirm my reception. I would appreciate receiving one very much!

Goodevening. I am a 60 year old Italianradio listener, cook byprofession,Married with Mariangela, I have 2 daughters, a daughter of 22 yearsgraduate in Arabic and a daughter of 19 graduate graphic design and worksFor nearly 22 years listening to what I can and what I can from 030 MHz. I live in San Pellegrino Terme Provinceof Bergamo . For a year almostexclusively pirate.

Unfortunatelythey are ignorant of foreign languages ​​and know a few of the music broadcast.

To use this GOOGLE translatorand attach audio files to show my ascolti.Lerecordings are made with small MP3 locatedapproximately 25 cm from thespeaker outside of the receiver,whose specifications are listed in thereport of listening.

Asa good radio listener collect QSLcards of any kind, and publicon facebook. I am hoping for your kind reply, I thank the attention andI cordially greet.Ciao ciao Franco Baroni

Listening to you this morning on 6239 kHz – great tunes! „Young Folks“, Libertines „Heart of the Matter“…I emailed a follow up reception report – never received the QSL from station engineer. Maybe new report will do the trick…

Report on reception from Italy of Radio Marabu on 28 November 2015 on 6305 kHz

Dear friends of Radio Marabu,

It is with great pleasure that I
report reception of RADIO MARABU. I
am an Italian radio enthusiast and I love listening to short medium and long
wave stations because it is very interesting to hear something from thousands
of miles away. So picking up a transmission from somewhere in Northern Europe
is very exciting. To give you an idea of
how reception was here in Taranto (South of Italy, on the Ionian Sea) I made
the following notes, I hope that they are of use to your technical
“department”.

I would appreciate your checking this against your
station log. If my report is correct I would be grateful to receive, in return,
your station QSL card with the time, date, frequency
and transmitter site of this reception report mentioned on it!

DATE OF RECEPTION:
28th November, 2015

TIME GMT/UTC OF RECEPTION: 20.22-20.44

FREQUENCY:
6305 kHz;
WAVELENGHT: 47.58 metres

RECEPTION CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO
SINPO CODE: 32322

PROGRAMME DETAILS:
The following
songs, interspersed with announcements in German language, among others, were
played: ”Feuerlicht” by Herbert Gronemeyer (fragment), “Sirenen” by Madsen, (fragment), „Du Bist Das Schonste“ by
Daniel Gstatter

My receiver is R-1000 made in
Japan by the KENWOOD company. The antenna is a 20-metre outdoor wire.

I take this opportunity to express my
best wishes for the felicity and success of all of you at Radio Marabu. Even if new
and easier methods for distribution of foreign transmission are now available,
I am still a shortwave listeners that’s why I hope to that you are able to confirm my reception report with
your QSL card mentioning time, date, frequency and,
if possible, transmitter site!
I am a 51-year old free-lance journalist and blogger (Please visit: http://www.dxfanzine.com) specialized
in media and communication technology. That’s why I am interested in learning more about programmes,
history, current status and future plans of Radio Marabu. Please be so kind and, if you can, keep-me update by
providing as much information as possible
about any development so I can write a report about your radio station.

Thank you for taking the time to read my
letter and for taking an interest in a listener from Italy. Your
time and trouble is highly appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you, in
the meantime I wish you luck in all of your daily activities and hope that the
operation of your station would always be prosperous.

I’m 55 years old & one of my hobby is listening to shortwave radio. I live
in Hiroshima JAPAN where known for the Atomic bomb dropping during World War
for the first time in history.

Lot of radio stations left short wave in these days. So recently I
frequently listen to Euro pirate station using WEB software defined radio.
This time I listened to your program using WEB software defined radio at
university of Twente, The Netherland.

This time I send you reception report & in my town Hiroshima’s picture-
Miyajima- world heritage site, MP3file as it was heard including statin
identification.

Program details
– music
„Ohne Dich“ by Wynardtage
„Welke Rosen“ by Conte
„Mad Miles“ by Sophie Hunger
„Dream Of Me“ by Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark
„Alles Neu“ by MIA.
– station identification at 13.21 by female
– there was short segments between each song
Language broadcast: German

Interferences noted: SINPO 45444. Your signal was
strong. There was no interfering. The singal
faded up and down slightly.

Receiver: in Japan via WebSDR receiver of Twente
University in the Netherlands

My impressions of your programs: This is the
second time that I heard your programm.
I sent the reception report for the frst receprion
but I never get your QSL yet. I enjoy receiving a
European pirate radio stations that cannot be
received in Japan through a web-SDR, and enjoyed
many cool music that you played. I promise to you
that I listen to your cool program again.

If the details in this report are found to
correspond with your station log, I would
appreciate very much to receive your QSL card or
letter. Such a document would also serve as a
nice remembrance of contact with your station.

Dear Sirs,
I have had great pleasure in logging your station and sending you my
reception report, trusting that you will be in a position to verify it.
Would you be kind enough to send me your QSL card or verification
e-mail if you find my report correct.
With all best wishes.
Kind regards.

Hi, just a minute ago your transmission was coming to southern Finland on
6305 kHz. My listening post is in the capital, Helsinki, the remote
sdr-receiver is some 100 km north from here in my summer residence with a
120 meter longwire. SINPO=24242, signal strength was dropping from S9 to
S7, mainly -80 dBm, so fairly strong but noisy conditions. At times utility
and jamming on the frequency or close to it.

I listened to report from 17.55 to 18.37 CET. Thanks for an oldies style
choice of music, from which I could recognize: Queen / One by one, When I’m
alone, Leonard Cohen / Hallelujah. Thanks for the frequent station
announcements and Weinachten Wunschen in German, your slogan is Marabou,
Europe’s alternative music.

It was good to hear Radio Marabu on shortwave again during the past weekend and I hope the following reception report will be of some interest to you:
I heard you yesterday, 7th February 2016 from 10.45 to 12.00 utc on 6305 kHz. Reception was fair with a SINPO rating of 35433. Frequency was clear of any interference and only suffered slight qrn.

I heard you on a Grundig DLX 450 receiver with telescopic rod antenna, at my home in Padiham, a small town in the northwest of England, in the county of Lancashire.

When I tuned in at 10.45 there were lots of mentions of Marabu and was followed soon after by Lady Gaga with ‘we are not alone’. At 11.00 an instrumental dance type track was featured , this was followed by, among others, the following songs: ‘perfect love’, ‘do you remember’, ‘pictures in the sky’, ‘baby you’re mine’ and ‘we are on the run’.

As always an excellent selection of music, most of which you will never hear anywhere else. I look forward, as I have done for many years, to continue to hear you regularly on good old shortwave.

Once again hoping my report is of some interest and I would be grateful if you are able to verify by an e-qsl.

Hello Reiner, just to let you know I am currently listening to Radio Marabu on 6305 Khz and the signal is weak to fair – SINPO 34333 – the band is starting to fade out here now as it gets dark at 17:15 UTC and you are the only station l am able to hear now on 48m – Netherlands ones have faded out already.
I enclose a short MP3 for you to let you hear reception conditions at this time

Hello, your transmission is coming to southern Finland on 6305 kHz ! I
listened to report from 6.00 to 6.35 UTC while writing this report.

SINPO=25432, signal strength is S7.S9 (mainly -80 dBm, background noise -120
dBm), so fairly strong, but getting weaker because day is breaking. For
short periods there is heavy utility on your frequency. Take a listen to the
attachments, they have your announcements and some music. You can also hear
the utility. The recording times of the files are in the file names in
EET-time.

My listening post is in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. My remote
sdr-receiver is some 100 kilometers north from here in my summer residence
with a 120 meter longwire, impedance matching balun and ferrite clamp on
cores on almost all antenna, ground, power and data cables.

Thanks for an entertaining choice of music and clear station announcements
in German. Your music consisted of German schlagers, as well as
international hits.

Dear friends of Radio Marabu: This
reception report is to inform that on 05/Feb./2016, from 15:11h until
15:38h (UTC), I had the great opportunity to listen your station on the
frequency of 6.305 KHz, on Shortwave here in the city of Morrinhos – Ceará,
North East of Brazil, distant 210 Km. from the big city of Fortaleza, and
it was a big pleasure. The listening occurred with the support
from a SDR receiver located in the city of Enschede (University of Twente),
The Netherlands, in connection with my local computer facilities.
Based on this, I’m sending my reception report. Please check my reception
report (below). I Hope this report will be useful for your technical
assessment. In case all details prove to be correct, I would like to
receive a QSL card, QSL letter, or e-QSL from Radio Marabu, to confirm my
reception of your distant station. You will surely understand that I can’t
describe the spoken programmes, because my understanding of the German
language is very limited. I hope you can disregard any possible
understanding errors from my part. In advance I appreciate.
RECEPTION REPORT

“In this specific space of time, was presented a musical program, with
occasional comments, presented by male and female voices. 15:11 Was played
the song ‘Save a prayer’, by Duran duran. 15:14 Was played other song,
performed by female voice. 15:26 More music, performed by man’s voice. 15:30
New song was played in the program, performed by female voice. 15:38 Were
disclosed some comments, presented by male voice, and a German language
song.” It was a little difficult to understand the language used in your
transmission, but above are the details what were listened.

Hi,
I am a radio enthusiast from Västerås, Sweden, who listened to your radio station on Saturday April 9th 2016 at 22.50 – 23.20 hours Central European daylight saving time on 6305 kHz in the 48 metres band.
Your station was heard with poor signal strength and some interference from a utility station on about the same frequency. A slight noise was present, and the fading was slight to moderate. As an overall merit I would like to say that Radio Marabu was heard with fair audibility, or SINPO 24433.
The reception was achieved by means of Kenwood R-2000 communications receiver, which is a rather advanced set made in the last years of the eighties. It was connected to a longwire antenna, 300 metres long, and directed westwards. I listened to your station in a cottage outside Skärblacka which is a small village situated some 15 km from Norrköping.
To prove my reception I attach an MP3 file with an excerpt of your programme. There are station identifications in the first few seconds.
Thank you very much for your programme!
I am 58 years old and work as a consultant at Capgemini here in Västerås, which is a town of some 145 000 inhabitants situated about 100 kilometres west northwest of Stockholm.
If you consider the details given in this report as sufficient for an identification of your station, I would like very much to obtain your confirmation of my reception by means of e.g. an e-mail which states that I have listened to Radio Marabu.
Yours faithfully,

I heard your station this last weekend and a reception report can be
found below.

Best regards,Lennart Weirell

RECEPTION REPORT

To: Radio Marabu

Dear Sirs,

It’s with pleasure I report reception of your radio station on 6305 kHz
on the 9th of April 2016 at 21:17 to 22:03 hours UTC.

Reception quality: Quite good SIO 333

Details from your program to prove I really heard your station:

Time Details

21:17 Station ID – alternative music
21:37 Elton John & Kikki Dee
21:41 Short German song
21:51 David Bowie (?)
22:03 A strong station on 6300 started and interfered too much

Reception was achieved by means of a communication receiver of model JRC
NRD-515 and an outdoor multi band dipole antenna. I was listening in
Väsby in the south of Sweden, about 20 km West of Norrköping.

Personal information: I’m a retired electrical engineer, born in 1948,
living in Västerås, about 100 km West of Stockholm. Hobbies: Radio
listening (I started with DX-ing in 1964) and stamp collecting.

If the information given in this report corresponds to your station log,
I would appreciate very much your verification card/letter or e-mail.
Such a verification would also be a nice remembrance of this contact
with your radio station (so far I’ve got more than 650 verifications
from radio stations in 160 countries).

Yours sincerely,

Lennart Weirell SE-723 44 Västerås
Member of
Aros DX Club

Also member of
Sveriges DX-Förbund
– The Swedish DX Federation –
(www.sdxf.se)

MESSAGE: 0820 The song sings man. 0822 Announcements by a male, mention of Radio Marabu. The song sings man. 0826 Station identification “Radio Marabu” by male voice. The song sings man. 0829 The song sings man. 0831 Announcements by a male, mention of Radio Marabu. Station identification “Radio Marabu” by male voice. Talk by a male. 0834 The song sings man. 0838 Announcements by a male. The song sings man. 0841 Mention of Radio Marabu. The song sings man.
Dear Sir,
If this report is correct, I’d like to obtain your QSL – card and some info about the station.

It is with great pleasure that I report the reception of your broadcast
from Milan, Italy
I heard your station on the date of 02 April (ICOM 9100, dipole homebuilt
antenna)
On a frequency of 6305 Khz.
UTC 15:01 (Local 17:01) Overall Reception Quality
The SINPO code that describes the overall reception quality of your
broadcast is:
S I N P O
3 2 2 2 2

It is with great pleasure that I report the reception of your
broadcast from Milan, Italy
I heard your station on the date of 29 May (ICOM 9100, dipole homebuilt antenna)
On a frequency of 6305.1 Khz AM.
UTC 14:57 (Local 16:57) Overall Reception Quality
The SINPO code that describes the overall reception quality of your
broadcast is:
S I N P O
3 3 2 3 3

Good afternoon!
It is my first official report for your station.
Thanks for the excellent choice of music!
I listened to your signal in my house in Saratov, Russia.
Unfortunately in my house I practically didn’t hear your signal.
And in parallel I listened to your station via the remote SDR University of
Twente receiver in Netherlands.
I hope that my official report will be useful to you.
I hope for your answer and receiving a QSL card.

Hello, Radio Marabu, your program is coming to Finland on 6305 kHz ! I
listened to report from 19.00 to 19.55 UTC.

My listening post is in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. My remote
sdr-receiver is some 100 kilometers north from here in my summer residence
with a 220 meter longwire, impedance matching balun and ferrite clamp on
cores on almost all antenna, ground, power and data cables.
Thanks for an entertaining choice of music and clear station announcements

Please, confirm my listening report, if it is correct. And I would also
appreciate an e-qsl.
73’s, keep on pirate broadcasting, cheers ! Jouni

Thank you for the qsl in reply to my report back in February 2016 and also for your email regarding this past weekend’s broadcast.

I heard you a number of times throughout both days but rather than sendiong a long list of reports I hope the following 2 will be of interest:

I heard you on the 9th July 2016 from 18.45 to 19.30 utc on 6305 kHz. Reception was fair with a SINPO rating of 35433. Frequency was clear of any interference and suffered only slight qrn at times.

Soon after I tuned in the song ‘never coming back’ was featured followed soon after by ‘I wanna make love to you. At 19.00 ‘dancing in the moonlight was played and later at 19.15 there was a lot of talk in German that included many I.d’s and a mention of music box. This was followed by the song ‘getting serious’ after which came a jazz instrumental and then the theme from A Summer Place.

I also heard you an the 10th July from 21.20 to 21.58 again on 6305 kHz. Reception was good with a SINPO rating of 45444. Again frequency was clear of any interference.

Among the songs fe4atured at this time included ‘my summer love’ and ‘all summer long’. Later at 21.48 there was an unusual track from a female singer followed by ‘I don’t wanna leave’ and ‘angel on my side’. It was during this last song that you closed at approx. 21.58.

Both the above were heard as usual on my Eton satellit 750 receiver with a telescopic rod antenna, at my home in Padiham, a small town in the northwest of England.

A really enjoyable weekend of music with lots of tracks that are not normally heard elsewhere. I look forward to your next broadcast.

If possible I would be grateful if you are, once again, able to verify by a qsl.

I’m enthusiast to listening short wave stations.
My hobby is DXing.
If this report corresponds with your station log,
I should be very glad to receive your verification card (QSL) –
or QSL-letter, or eQSL,pennant, stickers and information about your station.

Dear Radio Marabu
I was listening to Radio Marabu yesterday, at 20.10 GMT, on 6305 KHZ, I noted a SINPO code rating of 34433. I was using a JRC NRD525 receiver and Wellbrook ala1530 loop antenna.
All the very best to you all
Regards
Patrick

Radio Marabu your signals on 6305 AM were received near New York City on 11/9/16 @ 0210 UTC. Your signal was S1-S3. It was great to be able to listen to your station for the first time. I hope the next time conditions will be a little bit better. I recorded a small video clip of how you sounded and uploaded it to youtube. The link is listed at the bottom. If you eQSL one would be greatly appreciated.

14:02 Earth wind and fire 34343
14:31 Georg Michael
14:48 Station Call
Comments:
Nice to hear your station – first time, but I hope not the last time – I
like your music
Personal details
Staffan Crona
Hisings Backa
Sweden

My name is Staffan Crona, and I am 64 years old, with wife and five
children, and two grandchildren.

About 50 years ago i was a shortwave listener, and now I started again –
reborn.
I work with air purification around the world, and I also work with some
inventors.
I am educated at Chalmers university of Technology (electronics) and at
Göteborgs University in Economics.
Other interests I have are history and the history of my families ancestors.

Good afternoon!
My new official report for Radio Marabu.
Unfortunately I can’t listen to your station at my place.
A magnificent signal through University of Twente.
Technical details in the file of the official report about reception (txt
format) and on a video.
Thanks for music!
I hope that my official report will be useful.
I hope for your answer and receiving QSL.

Hello from North America. I am writing to confirm direct reception here in
the USA of Radio Marabu on 10/22-23/2016 from 2227-2311 UTC on 6305 AM
mode. I live in Warwick, Rhode Island USA and have been listening to pirate
radio since 1991. I used my Yaesu FTDX3000 radio and outdoor all band
dipole antenna at 135 feet long and up about 40 feet to listen to this
broadcast. My reception details are as follows: (tuned back in around 0153
UTC on 10/23/2016 and I am still listening as I type out my report).

2227- rock music S1-2
2228- OM DJ chatter into „Voodoo Chile“ Jimi Hendrix
2233- DJ chatter then rock music in and out of the noise
2240- rock tune with electric guitar
2243- „Something In The Air“ Thunderclap Newman (listening on 6304.8 USB)
2254- song „You Know Where You Go“ ? then Marabu ID jingle
2257- Radio Marabu ID into unid pop song OM vocals
2301- European sounding pop song YL vocals
2307- Radio Marabu ID
2309- rock song YL vocals (maybe Veruca Salt?)
2311- OM DJ chatter into German or Dutch rock music
0153- tuned back in to hear rock music S1
0241- very faint music still heard

I am quite pleased to have heard Radio Marabu direct to North America! The
signal was weak and I did listen in USB mode (6304.8) for a clearer
reception. I enjoyed the music that you featured in this program! I
remember hearing Marabu back in the 1990s being relayed here in the USA by
a few North American free radio stations, so it is great to have logged you
once again. It is always nice to hear the Europirate stations and
especially nice to listen direct. If this report is correct a QSL would be
greatly appreciated. I’m not sure if you verify reports by email or postal
mail. I can send you this report by postal mail if you desire, please let
me know the mailing address if this is the case. I’ll include my postal
address if need be. Thanks in advance and I wish you all the best from
North America! Hopefully I can listen to Radio Marabu once again on
shortwave in the future.

Tuned in at 0147 UTC with music playing. About 0205 UTC signal was in the noise with a few peaks above until 0245 UTC. Short recording attached.
Thanks for the music Radio Marabu! I will listen for your broadcast.
Don Wycoff
Ledyard, CT 06339

This morning, (December the 26^th ) I had the pleasure of hearing your
transmission for the first time, so I’m writing to inform yourself on
how your signal was heard at my location here in Alberta, Canada.

The listen period was from 11:11 to 11:42 hours Universal Time (UTC)
from a remote Site, 120 km’s northwest of my location, at Lamont
Alberta. This site has a 2100-foot beverage antenna pointed to Europe.
The short wave frequency was 6305 kHz, 47:58 meters. The web link for
the audio is: https://goo.gl/5UI36n

As your can hear It was actually coming quite good from this site. At my
location here in Daysland, nothing noted on the 100-meter long wire.

I am requesting a confirmation, in the form of your station’s QSL Card
or/and an E-mail verification, indicating the Date, Time and Frequency
as correct. Would it be possible to list the power of this broadcast?

It’s great that your signal was able to reach out here, so hopefully in
the future may have the opportunity of again hearing your next
transmission.

MESSAGE: 1300 The song sings man. Announcements by a male. Music. 1303 Announcements by a male. The song sings woman and man. 1308 Station identification “Radio Marabu” by male voice. Talk by a male. 1311 The song sings man. 1315 Announcements by a male. The song sings man. 1318 The song sings man. 1321 The song sings woman. 1324 Announcements by a male. Talk by a female. The song sings man. 1327 Announcements by a female. Mention of music. Music. 1330 Station identification “Radio Marabu” by male voice.
Dear Sir,
If this report is correct, I’d like to obtain your QSL – card and some info about the station.

Good afternoon!
*Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!*
My new reception report for Radio Marabu.
Tonight I listened to your program through Channel 292.
Unfortunately I very much wanted to sleep.
I delivered my TV-tuner on video record.
What at me has turned out is visible on video of record.
00:30 – 01:50 Very weak signal – practically nothing is heard.
01:52 Improvement of passing of a signal.
It is heard program details.
After 02:45 the signal went to QSB.
Very weak signal.
Technical details in the file of the official report about reception (txt
format) and on a video.
Thanks for program!
I hope that my official report will be useful.
I hope for your answer and receiving QSL.

I’m a radio listener from St.Petersburg, Russia.
More than 20 years ago one of my favourite hobbies was DX-ing (shortwave monitoring).
It was a little difficult (I understand it now) to be in contact all over the world
haven’t a computer and internet. Letters were sending by regular post – it took much time
and was rather expensive for a student. Now I’d like to try it again…
Unfortunately, I don’t know German language, therefore I can only attach an audio files,
as a details of your programme.
Could you, please, confirm my reception report by QSL-card or letter (possible e-mail).

Dear Radio Marabu
I’m listening to your transmission this morning, I have recorded part of
your broadcast at 08.40-09.11 GMT on 6150 kHz.

My radio receiver is a JRC NRD525 and the antenna is a Wellbrook ala1530
loop.

Please will you confirm my reception report with a Radio Marabu QSL?
I enjoy listening to Radio Marabu, I understand some German, so listening
to German helps me improve.
I wonder if you have plans to broadcast more programmes in English?

Dear Friends,
it’s my pleasure to submit a reception report for your shortwave broadcast on 6305 kHz.
I hope my report is of use to the station. If the details are correct, I would greatly appreciate receiving your QSL.
Yours sincerely,

I was most pleased to hear your station ‚ Radio Marabu‘ on Saturday
the 25 of february 2017, from 18:00 to 18:20 hours , on the frequency
of 6305 kHz AM.
I heard you on an Kenwood TS440s radio with Long Wire antenna homemade (
20.50 m ) .

Could you please check the details of this reception report. If you find
them to be correct, could you please send me your e-QSL verification,
letting me know if it was indeed these station that I heard ? I would be
most pleased to receive this from you. A simple e-mail with some info about
your transmitter would be enough.

My name David , 43 year . radio hobbyist since 1990. I live in Sarralbe
(Locator: JN38MX) a small French town in the Northeast. I particularly
enjoy tuning to distant MW and SW stations in France and worldwide.

May your station have continued successes in the future. I look forward to
your reply and I send many thanks in advance and Best Wishes from France .

Good afternoon!
It is my new reception report for Radio Marabu.
Technical details in the file of the reception report (txt format) and on a
video.
Unfortunately I can’t listen to your signal at my place.
Good signal via University of Twente.
Thanks for music.
I hope that my reception report will be useful to you.
I hope for your answer and receiving a QSL card.

*P.S.*
Earlier I have sent you official reports about reception on October 22 and
on December 24, 2016.
Unfortunately at the moment I haven’t received the answer.
Please, check it for me.
In advance many thanks for your help!

Good afternoon!
It is my new reception report for Radio Marabu.
Technical details in the file of the reception report (txt format) and on
a video.
Thanks for music.
I hope that my reception report will be useful to you.
I hope for your answer and receiving a QSL card.

*P.S. * Earlier I have sent you official reports about reception on October 22 and on December 24, 2016 and 25 February 2017. Unfortunately at the moment I haven’t received the answer.
Please, check it for me.
In advance many thanks for your help!

Reception report:
Date: April 09 ,2017,
Time: 09:30-09:46 UTC,
Frequency: 6150 khz,
SINPO: 25232
Receiver: Web-SDR mini-whip antenna. Your programme broadcast songs in
music programme,incl. „Different version of Riders on the storm“.
Dear sirs!I have had great pleassure in logging your station Radio
Marabu and sending you my reception report trusting that you will be
in a position to verefy it.Would you be kind enough to send me your
QSL-card or verification letter.Yours sincerely!

Dear Radio Marabu
I’m enjoying the broadcast this evening from Radio Marabu. I started listening at 16.08 GMT on 6150 kHz, I’m able to give you a SINPO code rating of 34433.
Programme details: Classical music in English and also with German yl, talking about a classical music album and paintings. Robert Wilson mentioned, followed by ‘Amazing Grace’, the four seasons, May to December, Signed sealed delivered I’m yours.
My receiver is a JRC NRD 525 and Wellbrook ala1530 loop.
Thanks for the great entertainment, keep up the good work, your doing a fine job!
Regards
Patrick Travers

Dear friends. Im sending you a report from Sweden. My name is Tore,68 years
old. Im living in a small villiage named Rydöbruk on the westcoast of
Sweden. I was listen to your Radio Marabu 2017 May 09 on the frequency 6150
khz. Some details from the broadcast. Time in UTC and sinpokod. 08,22 Now
That We Found Love by Third World 45444. 08,32 Dub Be Good To Me by Beats
International 45433. 08,38 Slow Motion by Jane Weaver 35433. 08,41In Cold
Blod by Alt-J 35433. If this is correct I be pleased if you will send a
card as verification. With all best to you and yours.

Nice signal today the 1st of May around 08H20 on 6150 Khz with good
music („shack me on the ground, shack me to the ground“.. at 08H28 UTC,
ID at 09H29)
S 8-9, SINPO 45544, beautiful and strong audio, very enjoyable
listening, nice music for my taste.

I’m living in the North East part of France, in countryside. I am using
Yeasu FT-857D and a long wire about 83m length !

* I am pleased to inform you that I have listened to your radio broadcast.**
The details of reception report is as follows.*
* I hope this report will be of some value to you.*
*(Radio): ** Radio MarabuEuropa 24 **（Shepparton ）： Dattteln (
Language) ： Germany*
*(Frequency): * *6150 kHz** (Date): 16 , June , 2017 *
*(Time) (UTC):* * 16 :00 **～ **16**：30 (JST):* * 01：00 **～** 01 : 30*
*(* *Receiver): **Wide-band WebSDR* *V**ia the Netherlands* *( Antenna):
ALA-1530AL-2**（**10 meters above ground**）*
*(SINPO**）**: 45444*
In Japan, because it is difficult to receive, I received it by SDR via the
Netherlands. The program content was music-centered, it was a wonderful
program. In the second half, the reception condition became a little worse,
but the program was enjoyable. I recorded on MP3, so please listen. Please
tell me the next program schedule, frequency.
*Please send confirmation, QSL card, if you can confirm that the reception
report is in the correct state.*

15:38 Half a million The Shins
15:45 About homosexuel in Chechnya
15:48 Thunder Imagine Dragons
15:55 Blame it on the rain Milli Vanilli
16:07 Das beste an dieser welt Aniko
16:12 Rucksicht Hoffmann & Hoffmann
16:15 Nachrichten
16:17 The system only dreams in total darkness The National

Thank you for good choice of music with some liden Ich nicht fryer gehört.
Personal details
Staffan Crona
422 44 Hisings Backa
Sweden

Thanks for greetings and song
Personal details
My name is Staffan Crona, and I am 66 years old, with wife and five
children. A family picture is enclosed. We have a tradition to make a new
picture at every Christmas.
I was a shortwave listener about 50 years ago, and I have made a comeback
now.
My interest for radio and later audio made me study electronics and in the
end at Chalmers University of technology.
My private interest, beside technology, is history and my family ancestor
history.

Today, I had the great pleasure to listen to your station on SW. The
reception here at my summer house just outside Norrköping was okay with no
interference from other stations but with some noice. I have heard Radio
Marabu earlier, but that must have been many years ago and as a pirate
station and I even have a QSL from that time.

I am a senior citizen, 78 years old and started DX-ing at the beginning of
the 50`s and it is still on that way. But today there is lesser and lesser
station to listen to, a lot of stations moves to the internet and FM.

Yesterday evening when I was lazily fiddling my radio I suddenly came
across to your German broadcast from Radio Marabu on 6150 kHz on shortwave.
It is my pleasure of having a chance to send you this reception report.
It would be so much appreciated if you would confirm my reception with
your verification (QSL) card or letter based on the following information.
Thanks you for taking care of my reception in advance.

And now to prove that I really tuned in to your station, here are some
program details. All times are in UTC. I’m also enclosing audio files which
I recorded yesterday evening. I would like to request you to listen to the
attached audio file so that you can judge the reception quality over here.

*PROGRAME HEARD: *
1120 – song in male voice was heard.
1122 – another song in female voice was played.
1125 – station ID given as “Marabu” in German language and then pop song by
male singer was played.
1136 – short announcement in German by a female announcer and then male
announcer was heard.
1138 – another pop song in local language in female voice was played.
1141 – song in English by a male singer called “ Little bit….” was played.

*RECEPTION CONDITION:- *SINPO = 33222 poor signal strength with atmospheric
noise and slight QRM from an unknown station on the same frequency
otherwise fair audio quality was noted.

It is with great pleasure that I report the reception of your
broadcast from Milan, Italy (Grid: JN45ok)
I heard your station on the date of 10 October (RACAL 1792, dipole
homebuilt antenna)
On a frequency of 6150 Khz.
UTC 12:33 (Local 14:33)
Overall Reception Quality
The SINPO code that describes the overall reception quality of your
broadcast is:
S I N P O
5 4 3 5 5

*Dear Radio Marabu!I like your station very much, i“m a fan of alternative
music! Here is a reception report of your programs. Please send me a QSL
card and whatever other items you have for your listeners. Station: Radio
MarabuDate: 26-SEP-2017 Time (UTC): 17-40-18-00Frequency: 6150 kHz SINPO:
I’m use Degen 1103, and WEB SDR Radio in Twente.

It’s the first time I can catch you so good.
Poor signal, propagation falls often, it is not understood what the person is talking about. I only recognized the song after the melody.

If possible, I’d like a paper QSL card sent by mail.
I hope you find my reception report to be of some use. If the details are correct please verify with a QSL verification card. A sticker would also be appreciated, if these are available.

Interferences noted: SINPO 44444. Your signal was
strong. There was slight interfering from 6145 kHz.
And, the singal faded up and down slightly.

Receiver: in Japan via WebSDR receiver of Twente
University in the Netherlands

My impressions of your programs: This is the
second time that I heard your programm.
I enjoyed many cool music that you played. I promise
to you that I listen to your cool program again.

If the details in this report are found to
correspond with your station log, I would
appreciate very much to receive your QSL card or
letter. Such a document would also serve as a
nice remembrance of contact with your station.

I wish to report reception of Radio Marabu via an online Software-Defined receiver located on a hill in the South West of the UK. Please confirm (if correct) with your QSL card or verification letter. Thank you very much.

I hope you find my reception report to be of some use. If the details are correct please verify with a QSL card or verification letter. Also please send me further information about your station, your current broadcasting schedule and some souvenirs, if possible. Thank you very much.
My full postal address is as follows:
Mr. Gabriel Schvartz,
(3100) Parana ER – Argentina

I would very much appreciate, if you can verify, that I have heard your
radiostation.

Merry Christmas and a happy new year
Staffan Crona Sweden

Personal details

My name is Staffan Crona, and I am 66 years old, with wife and five
children. A family picture is enclosed. We have a tradition to make a new
picture at every Christmas.
I was a shortwave listener about 50 years ago, and I have made a comeback
now.
My interest for radio and later audio made me study electronics and in the
end at Chalmers University of technology.
My private interest, beside technology, is history and geneology.

Hello Radio Friends,
This letter is to report reception of your station on 6309.8 kHz today, Christmas 2017, in Massachusetts USA.I have been hearing you since around 0145 UTC which was last night here, until past 0300 when I went to bed.When I went back to my radio after 1000 UTC, you were still there.And you are still there now after 2200 UTC.
The program was mostly rock music with announcements in German, and somewhat longer talks and identifications at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour.Reception was fair to good, with occasional interference from 6314 which I think is utility station WLO.
The main receiver used was an Icom 756 Pro 2, connected to an end fed 40 meter wire and ground counterpoise which results in a fairly quiet receive antenna.(Also used was a Icom R-75 and Pixel magnetic loop that I use to tune around from my bed.)
Here are a few notes I took of the program heard:0215 station ID (identification) by a group and then male announcer as Radio Marabu, then rock music.0219 brief announcement and more vintage/1980’s sounding rock tune.
0226 announcement in German and slower ballad type song.0230 Song by John Lennon „Imagine.“
0245 Brief clip of Jingle Bells, mention of Weichnacht and then Marabu.0247 Man with deep voice spoke for a while in German.0256 Song „Do they know its Christmas Time“ and „Feed the World“0315 Recorded ID as Radio Marabu.
1015 This hour seemed to follow what I noticed about longer announcements at 15 past the hour.1030 The signal began to fade though it was still detectable past 1100, about 1 hour before sunrise here.
2235 The siganl is not as strong now but it is still early in the evening here.

I would appreciate receiving a QSL verification and any technical information that you are able to share about your transmitter and antenna.
Thanks for the Christmas program!
Gregg Bares USA

Hi Radio Marabu
The Radio Marabu signal was blasting through into Sheffield this afternoon 23 January 2018, at 12.36 hours UTC – 13.45 hours UTC on 6150 kHz, I can give you a SINPO code of 44544.
Song by Cher ‘Heart of Stone’, commercial for baby baby.com, Marcel on Radio Marabu English announcement.
My receiver is a AirSpy HF+ SDR and the antenna is a Wellbrook ala1530.
I would have you more programme details but I was busily doing DIY and I didn’t get chance to write anything else down. Thanks for the great entertainment by the way.
I would be really interested in purchasing a Radio Marabu mug?
Please will you send me one of your QSL-card’s?
Thank you,
Keep up the good work,
Regards
Patrick Travers

Dear Radio Marabu
Greetings from the Southwest Pacific!
This past week I have been monitoring a German-language broadcaster on
6150kHz which opens daily at 0703:30 UTC precisely and plays mainly rock
music.
Reception is initially marred by Austrian Radio’s strong transmission on
6155 kHz but this closes down at 0710 or 0715 UTC, leaving the 6150 signal
in the clear. It is very weak and fades out soon after 0800 UTC.
I have been listening daily and the best reception to date was on Monday 29
January 2018 when number of music tunes could be identified (using the
Shazam app).
Here is my log for that date. I have a tentative identification for Radio
Marabu so am hoping you may be able to confirm that your low powered signal
has indeed travelled all the way to New Zealand!
0715 UTC – Signal clear of Austrian Radio interference enabling rock music
and announcement in German by a man to be heard.
0720 – :Welcome to Adolescence‘ sung by Do I Smell Cupcakes.
0723:30 Male announcer.
0724:15 More music – male vocal group.
0728 – announcent by a woman – possibly says Radio Marabu (audio file
attached). Another music track followed = ‚Still Loving You‘ by the
Scorpions.
0732:45 – Male announcer (on audio file attached), followed by ‚Alone‘ sung
by Toto.
0738 – ‚Under the Wheels‘ by Calexico.
0740:45 – Male announcer in unidentified language then ‚Reeperbahn‘ by Udo
Lindenberg.
I was not able to confidently identify any programming after this time and
finally tuned out at 0800 UTC.
My receiver is a WinRadio G33DDC Excalibur Pro SDR, and the antenna is a
low noise EWE aimed northeast across the Pacific. My location is on teh
East Coast of NZ, 1km from the Pacific Ocean and 100km north of our largest
city Auckland.
Thanks for reading this email and checking the audio file – I hope it was
Radio Marabu I was hearing, albeit with much difficulty!
Best wishes from Bryan Clark
Mangawhai 0540, New Zealand

weak fading signal for most of the time except for music not audible,
strong interference from the station on the frequency of 6,145 kHz I think
it’s a Taiwan radio, at 17:00 the signal has completely disappeared.
I attach audio files to confirm the reception of your station.
I’m sorry that the report is not better.

If this possible please to consider verify my report with a QSL card .

Deep in the endless forests of Finland I listen to your transmission. I am
a DX listener, who listens to the foreign broadcasts in old fashioned
wireless way. As a 100% radio man I am also a radio amateur with OH3EPZ
call.

I am an editor and author, I teach at comics school and I write nonfiction
about art of comics and animation.

Sometimes in 1980s I was interested in Deutsche Neue Welle – when I had
opportunity to hear it, and it didn’t happen often. Einstürzende Neubauten
and Deutsch-Amerikanisch Freundschaft were big names back then. But even
today I have found such bands as Microboy.

My home town is Lahti, a city famous for skiing and radio. Here was the
srongest nordic AM station in the long wave 252 kHz. As in the rest of
Europe, FM stations have now replaced AM stations. In old European radios
one can see on scale name „Lahti“. Radio towers are shown in my amateur qsl
card.

As a qsl collector I would be very happy if you could confirm my reception
report and state that I have listened to your radio station. A simple email
is fine.

I have the pleasure to inform you that I heard your broadcast on SW 6150 kHz
over Europa 24 here in Sweden on February 11, 2018 at 1300-1325 UTC
(1400-1425 Swedish local time). The signal was quite good, with slight
fading and some splatter from adjacent channels.

I enclose a short audio clip including a station ID so you can hear how your
station was received here. Although I did not take any notes of music
played and so on, I enjoyed your music selection very much. Actually, I was
listening to you while waiting for a friend of mine to come over, as we were
going on a DX cruise to Finland with some friends on this day.

If this proves my reception of your station on this day I would be very glad
if you could confirm that I heard your station by a verification card (QSL)
or a letter sent by post. I will be pleased to send return postage if
required. In that case, please let me know how you want the payment
transferred. If you don�t have any printed QSL cards a letter will do fine.
I am not interested in eQSLs and would rather pay to get a real QSL by
�snail mail�.

By the way, I wonder if we didn�t relay your shows some time over the SW
transmitter at Sala, Sweden? We were broadcasting under the name of Radio
Revival but unfortunately it got more and more difficult to get temporary
licenses. We did apply for a permanent broadcasting license but the Dept. of
Culture refused to grant us one. However, we are not giving up and should be
back in one way or another soon.

I am living on the island of Faringso, some 30 km�s off Stockholm, in the
sea of Malaren, Together with some other DX enthusiasts I am sharing a
listening shack at Fredriksfors in the province of Hälsingland, some 350 km
north of Stockholm. When I heard you I was using a remote controlled
Software Defined Radio of Kiwi Type which we have installed in our listening
shack so I can sit here in Stockholm and listen to the receiver 350 km up
north. The antenna used is a 800 metres long wire antenna (type beverage)
beamed at 317 degrees. When I am staying at the shack I use a JRC NRD535D
communications receiver plus a selection of beverage antennas in various
directions. They are between 600-1 000 metres long.

I have been DX-ing more or less actively since the early 1970s, although I
have been listening to foreign radio stations ever since I was a little kid.
I think this is a great way of learning more about foreign countries, not to
mention hearing new music from all over the world. My interest in hearing
good music was the reason why I once started to listen to distant radio
stations.

The DX hobby used to be very big in the 1950s-1970s but there are still many
of us doing this. I have actually written a book about the history of radio
and DX-ing from a Swedish point of view and it was published in 2016. Over
the years, Sweden had the largest number of DX-ers in the world per capita.

I am a journalist by profession and I have been working in commercial radio
for several years in various positions, including starting up and running
stations. I have been running my own radio show, The Ronny B Goode Show, for
many years and it contains a wide variety of music with a focus on lesser
known tracks, B-sides and so on from the 1950s-70s but also more recent
music.

I am single and live with my dog � a real beauty called Rock�n� Ruth; a
Great Pyrenee who will be two years old in April. Besides DX-ing I have many
interests; languages, reading, nature, music, traveling etc etc. I�m also a
keen record collector with a very wide taste of music.

I would be very grateful if you could answer my letter by post, as it will
be a very nice memory of your station. Do you by any chance have a sticker
with the station logo on or some other promotional material? I am collecting
anything related to radio stations. Somehow an email will never have the
same attraction as a real letter or card.

Waouh !!! Earing New Order…! That’s only a free radio like your’s to do
that ! EXCELLENT !
20 years before I have a vinyl collection about them…and someone stole it
to me…!
I have almost 180 rare items from them and also Joy Division…
If possible to ear a part of Joy Division I’ll be glad for today.

Dear Radio Marabu
I’ve been listening to Radio Marabu on the 14 March 2018, I tuned in at 11.30 GMT, to your shortwave frequency of 6150 kHz, I recorded part of your broadcast, my recording is from 11.54 until 13.06 GMT, you can either listen to or download my recording from box.com using this link:

I’ve been DXing here in northeastern Sweden since 1970 though only last year did I learn about and put up 3 rather conveniently sized ”Flag” wire antennas which finally let me pick up transatlantic mediumwave stations. This winter they worked OK, and a plus is that they work OK towards Europe on the 49 mb including you.

But Europa 24 is the hardest to hear low powered German transmitter up here. 2 years ago I heard it regularly that autumn but almost never through all of last year…

This winter it’s back but the high noise floor on 49 mb is maybe the worst problem. For this occasion, I was out at my brother’s house down by the sea where it is lower.

I sometimes listen to Web radio and WebSDRs but as a DXer, obviously the thrill and coolest ”feel” lies in hunting an AM signal and managing its best possible readability over noise and interference!

So I’ve heard Radio Marabu earlier but back home it’s been difficult to hear for any long stretch of time, and with mostly very faint signal. What little I’ve heard has made a good impression though. I’m always curious about music but am a bit stuck in the past.

I collect especially 60’s music and I drum for a couple of bands including retro band THE MOST – we have played a little in Europe, the US and one time even in Mexico.
If you ever have time, please try:

Ohh… surely one of your Swedish listeners has pointed this out already, but ”Marabou” is the name of our biggest chocolate manufacturer, running since 1916!

The enclosed recording was done with my brand new and first ever SDR (Software Defined Radio). I really love my good old communications receivers but this unit has surprisingly good audio and one can record right away! (The sound is still VERY hissy due to low signal and atmospheric noise).

A question! The song with the initial whistling really stuck with me. A nicely laid back song that also seems familiar somehow. I’d be grateful if you could identify and tell me artist and title?

It is with great pleasure that I report the reception of Radio marabu from
Dattteln, Germany, Fed. Rep.. I heard your station on 31-December-2017 from
11:02 to 11:17 Utc on a frequency of 6150 Khz transmitting in AM.
Reception Quality

I would like to provide a reception report for Radio Marabu from today
10th May 2018 from 06:20Z on frequency 6150KHz. I heard your station after
Radio Austria on 6155KHz had shut down. The signal report is SINPO 54435
and the audio quality is excellent. There is deep cyclic fading, but
overall a great signal and easy to listen to. I am located in the South of
England and am using a 1M diameter active loop antenna pointing South East
/ North West and an old Trio R-2000 HF receiver. The programme I listened
to was in German language with good rock music!

Please could you tell me your transmitter power and antenna configuration?

Thank you for continuing to broadcast on Shortwave.

I would be truely grateful if you could send me a QSL card to acknowledge
this reception report to :

I wish to report reception of Radio Marabu for a short while in the
night-time from 2200UTC (2300CEST) when I assume that Europa 24 were
testing their transmitter.

Reception was good at that time, coming through quite clearly.

By the way – I live in Teddington, just to the southwest of London, a
short walk from the River Thames. I am 60 years old and recently
retired from my work as an IT desktop support engineer, and have been a
shortwave listener for over 40 years.

If it is possible, I would very much appreciate receiving a QSL card or
eQSL/email to confirm my reception of your radio station.

My name is Thierry, I live in the North East part of France (french
departement 54) in an small village called Bertrichamps (abour 50km
south from bigger city called Nancy, about 100 km east from Germany border).

I am an broadcast listener and enjoy listening broadcasting on
shortwave, mediumwave and more.
Today the 12 of august 2018 at 10H15 UTC I was please to hear your radio
on 6150 Khz with good signal, from 7 to 8, band was affecting with a
little fading but at the end, it was very enjoyable to listen the music !
I included a MP3 file to confirm my listening (ID of the radiostation)

My equipment is a ham radio transceiver Yeasu FT-857D and my antenna is
a triangle antenna called delta loop. The length is about 83m.

Thank you for your broadcast, if it is possible to receive any
confirmation of this listening, I will very happy!

Dear Sir / Madam
I was pleased to hear Europa 24 / Radio Marabu on the air, Sunday 15 July 2018, at 0959 – 1014 UTC, on the frequency of 6150 kHz Short Wave.
Signal strength was Fair (3); Interference was Moderate (3); Noise was Severe (2); Propagation was Moderate (3); Overall merit was Fair (3).The transmission I received was 250 watts via Europa 24, Datteln, Germany.
The programme I heard was Radio Marabu: Male speech, English, music, male speech regarding a new album called ‚Revelation‘, music by Ryan Webb. Music: ‚My Religion‘ Ryan Webb. Male speech, music: Andy Hall. Music.
I hope you find the above information of interest.If details are correct, please could you verify by email, or to my postal address, if possible.

Dear Radio Marabu
I have been listening to your shortwave relay on 6150 kHz, this morning, please click the link at box.com to listen or download my recording of part of the English broadcast.
My radio receiver is an Airspy HF+ SDR, using SDR Console Version3 software.
The antenna is a Wellbrook ala-1530 loop, mounted at just one metre above the ground.

Please will you confirm my reception report with one of your QSL – cards?
Do you have a Radio Marabu coffee mug for sale?
My best wishes to everyone at Radio Marabu.
Patrick Travers,

I hope the reception report is correct and useful to your station.
Please verify with a QSL verification card mail to the address below.
If you have a station sticker or goody bag, I would greatly appreciate one.

by aman(« der boyfriend »)..10.11:good german oldie by awoman with vocals

orchestra. .10.22:Fantastic German oldie by a group of men withmusicians.

10.25:Rock hit by a man with percussions.10.28 UTC:Rock oldie by aman
withmusicians.

Reception Quality in the SINPOCode:3-5-3-4-3
Technical Remarks:A fair signal and NoInterference made the listening acceptable.

I hope this reception report will behelpful to you.And if checked and found to be correct,can you

send me Radio Marabu qsl card as averifcation.The musical programme I heard was excellent for thegerman oldies you played with some rock hits.The show took place in afriendly atmosphere with much dynamism from the DJ.Thank you for yourwork!

As a conclusion,I hope this letter haspleased you.And enjoying to tune in again to Radio Marabu

Reception place: At home in Amagasaki City, Hyogo, JAPAN (N34.76 E135.39)
Details of program:
08:22 UTC Song by male and female vocalist.
08:23 Song by male and female vocalist. In
the concert.
08:29 Talk by male announcer.
“November…Europa 24…amid…complex…America…Denmark…department…ausnahme…Prime
minister…president…politik…”
08:33 Rap music by male vocalist.
08:39 Short talk by male DJ, then song by
male and female vocalist. “I don’t wanna be…”
08:42 Short talk by male DJ, then rock music
by male vocalist.
08:45 ID “You…Radio Marabu…Radio Marabu…”

Pop music by male vocalist.
08:46 I discontinued reception because of
heavy noise.
Condition: SINPO-45333〜25222
Interference: None, but transmission state on my side was bad and
sometimes interruption happened.
Receiver: KiwiSDR server set by DL7APJ at Teltow, Germany (meinsdr.ddns.net:8073)
Antenna: None
Comments: I received your station in Japan with the help of
KiwiSWR server set by amateur radio station in Germany. Signal was very noisy.
But when it comes to signal from Datteln directly, it is very difficult to
catch in Japan. But I think it is very interesting and fantastic to open
shortwave radio by individual.

I conclude my reception report. If you confirm the details of my
report is correct, I request you to send me your verification card or letter. If
you request me to send a reception report by postal way, please inform me of
it. I will send report by airmail soon.

Iam so please to listen live Radio Marabu English language service via internet stream. In my area I am unable to listen Radio Marabu through Radio. So I am listeningthe English language Service via internet. If you verify the web streamreception report then please very my today’s reception report.

Apologies for writing in English but unfortunately my German is limited to
a few ‚tourist‘ words and phrases.

I have recently started shortwave listening as a new hobby and received
your broadcast this morning. Due to my lack of German I struggled to
understand exactly what was being said and didn’t manage to identify all
the tracks played but hopefully there is enough detail in the report to
confirm it was your broadcast I heard.

Even though I was listening on a portable radio with a indoor [short] long
wire antenna in the ground floor of an apartment block the signal was
reasonable. There was however quite a bit of noise at times, although some
of that may be because of ‚electrical‘ interference in my location. The
signal also had some slight periodic fading but was never entirely lost.

I have included a reception report below with details from the programme
segments heard. If this report is verified I’d appreciate a QSL if you
provide them.

Heard few songs played including :
Hard Times
Sunday Driver
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Pali Sie
Sequence One

I hope the reception report is correct and useful to your station.
Please verify with a QSL verification card mail to the address below.
If you have a station sticker, calendar, stamps or goody bag, I would
greatly appreciate one.

News just gets better for Branton Charles with his song „Closest To Heaven“ which has jumped up to number 10 on the RADIO MARABU charts in Berlin. Produced and mixed by Mick Evans for a Melpro Production.

Q-1)Are you use Electronic Votting machine in the General election in your
country?
2) Is the self declaration is required for the candidate who are contest in
the election?
Who is elected in highest number of vote in last election?
Thanks once again

With best regards-
Siddhartha Bhattacharjee
President
Chaitak listeners club
PO-BELDA

I love that song that was playing at the start.Not a bad cover from i presume a German band? 73﻿ I love it. And a good reception of Radio Marabu. We hear Karin Rabhansl from Bavaria. Song is originally by SHERYL CROW: „If it makes you happy“.﻿

I’m listening to Radio Marabu this morning.
Reception covers 06.40-07.23 UTC on 6150 kHz. Reception not as good as my last report, I’ll let you judge for yourself?
My receiving equipment is exactly the same.
I only ever use my own receiving equipment, I don’t use web SDRs for reception reports.
73 my friend
Patrick Travers
Sheffield, England.

This afternoon – Tuesday May 28th 2019 – from Brussels, I had the great
pleasure to listen to your radio station on shortwave 6150 kHz between 15:16
UTC and 15:42 UTC. The broadcast was made up of songs, for which I enjoyed
very much.
Here below please find my reception report. From this report, you can
conclude that the quality of the transmission was fair in my region.

Dear radio friends;
I am writing to tell you about the pleasure I had recently of receiving your shortwave transmission here in Sweden. Quite an interesting capture for me.
Should this prove that I did in fact listen to your station I would be grateful if you would send me a brief line as verification (QSL). It would be a nice memory of this contact with your station.
A few details:
Date: 6 July 2019.
Time: 1850-1905 Central European Summer Time.
Frequency: 6150 kHz, shortwave.
You were carrying a nice pop programme. At 1900 you gave your station ID and mentioned “vielen summer hits on Marabu” followed by a “Marabu aus kurzwelle 61-50”, and then some info on an upcoming festival.
I am including a short recording, in mp3 format.
My radio is a software defined receiver, an SDR-IQ, and I was using a 200 meters long wire antenna heading south, and thus towards Germany. This antenna is what gives such a great signal.
I live in Malmö, a city of some 300.000 inhabitants in southern Sweden, though my listening is done in our countryside house close to Huaröd, a village of some 50 houses.
Being an oldtimer, having recently retired as a newspaper reporter at 65, after some 40 years in the media business, I am now happy to find some time for “DXing” again. For me this hobby started way back in 1971, and I still find it an unbeatable combination of technical stuff, languages, and cultures.
Radio is indeed still a great source of both information and entertainment from various parts of the world. Thank you for still reaching us all on shortwave.
Sincerely yours,
Hermod Pedersen,

Iam so please to listen live Radio Marabu English language service via internet stream.

In my area I am unable to listen Radio Marabu through Radio. So I am listeningthe English language Service via internet. If you verify the web streamreception report then please very my today’s reception report.

Dear Radio Marabu
I have been listening to your English programme from Radio Marabu this morning, please click on the box.com link to enable you to listen or download my recording of part of the transmission.

Date of reception Report: is Sunday 5 May 2019, 08.20-09.09 GMT, on 6150 kHz. Peter Anthony is the presenter.
My radio receiver is an Airspy HF Plus SDR, running SDR Console Version 3.0.8 software.
My antenna is a Wellbrook ala-1530 loop at four metres.
By the way, I only ever use my own receiver and antenna.
Please will you send me one of your QSL-card’s, confirmation of my report.
I listen to Radio Marabu most days, mainly for the music but I also understand some German as well.
Nice to hear an English Service on the air.
Do you have a Radio Marabu Mug available?
Thanks for the music and also continuing to use Shortwave.
Regards
Patrick Travers,

I have just started listening SW radio recently myself after my father
introduced it to me many years ago, I would love to have a QSL card in my mailbox
to start my collection!
Thank you very much and congratulations for your job.

It is with great pleasure that I report the reception of your
broadcast from Milan, Italy (Grid: JN45ok)
I heard your station on the date of 25 Aug (RACAL 1792, Wellbrook ALA 1530
antenna)
On a frequency of 6150 Khz.
Overall Reception Quality
The SINPO code that describes the overall reception quality of your
broadcast is:
S I N P O
3 3 3 3 3

Dear Sirs, i’m pleased to send you following reception report your
transmission in Italiane zone which operated in frequency of khz 6150 in
date 19/10/2012 utc 07:30 to 08:20. My location is situated in Volano in
250 m alm, in Sud Tyrol circus of the mountain.
The simpo today is approximated in signal to : 55544 with qsb in
evanescence, and noise for the situation in evaluation.
My receiver is composed station the amateur radio and principally activity
the SWL, since of the 1992 the my passion.
RX ICOM ICr-72R with antenna loop Ala1530 ;
RX Icom ICR-9000 with dipole 44 mt loong in my production.

Your transmission is detail to: Kurzwelle 6150 Werspricth with Raine Palma
and i rx the music pop Very good.

If this listening report coincides with the data of your station register,
i ask you to cortesy of send me your QSL card or Electronic EQsl, and
possibile schedule for the trasmission on air the other confirmation, it
will be kept as evidence of the event receipt. With the wish to hear again
as soon as possibile, i send a cordial greeting the the all the editor.

I had the pleasure to listen to Radio Marabu and your radio show Europes
Alternative Music, Saturday morning, and here follows a listening report, I
would be very happy if it could be confirmed from you. I usually listen to
you sometimes in the mornings when you are best heard here and now it was
time for a listener report, I thought

I heard your broadcast the 2019, Saturday 19th of October on the frequency
of 6150 kHz, 07.55-09.00 UTC/ GMT.

I have several receivers(also an sdr-receiver), but at this time I used an
TECSUN PL-380, with a 50 meter longwire antenna to an 9:1 Unun and a clamp
to the antenna. The audioclip is from this receiver.

QTH is Albrunna, Degerhamn which can be found on an island called Öland on
the swedish southeast coast, Latitud: 56° 19′ 20.7876″ N Longitud: 16° 24′
27.6516″ E .

At the time of your broadcast on 6150 kHz, the SINPO was 45444.

*Details from Radio Marabu broadcast 2019-10-19(*if I did not misunderstand
it all, the program had a German theme in the music selection, with new and
older music)*. The details could of course be more, but I do hope that it
will proof my reception of your program*(there was a lot of music elements
I could not identify):

07.55 ID and jingle Radio

08.07 Advertising and then information about Radio Marabu

08.10 ”Miss You” male singer

08.14 ”Loosing You” ?

08.19 Music by Maryla Rodovic

08.33 Music by the band Falkenberg from their new album

08.41 ”Drei Münzen im Brunnen” in english ”Three Coins In the Fountain”

*All times in UTC/GMT.*

It was with a sometimes strong signal strength that Radio Marabu was heard
here in Albrunna, in the southeast of Sweden, this Saturday morning. The
modulation was excellent. There is always an interesting music selection
from your broadcasts.

*Something about myself**:* I’m 56 years old and married to my wife
Susanne. I was interested in DX-ing between 1978-1982 in my youth, but have
last year resuming this interest. To the profession I am gardener.

If the information given in this report were correct, I would be very happy
for a confirmation of this from you. Any information about your station
will be appreciated.

Hello friends of radio Marabu my name is Ivan Guerini, with great pleasure
I send my mail with my reception report made at my listening station which
is located in Vertova provice of Bergamo, located in northern Italy. I hope
this report will serve as an indication of coverage of your transmissions,
and I hope you can confirm with your E-mail QSL can add to my collections.
Thanking you for your attention, I greet you, I wish you good work and good
luck.
A warm greeting from

Program Detail Heard few songs played including :
Airport
Confusion
Ball and Chain
Talk to me
Rock & Roll Again
Sen Laskey ( Speak Softly Love)
Audio Sample Refer attachments
Loves the song played but the audio was not so good for me to enjoy the
music.
Will tune in with other websdr in the future, hope with a better reception.

I hope the reception report is correct and useful to your station.
Appreciate if could verify with a QSL verification card mail to the address
below.
If you have a station sticker / freebies, I would greatly appreciate one.
Thank you.
Regards,

Prog Details:–Eurpoes alternative music listen and heard it’s interesting touch my hearts.
At the time poor signal reach my area.
I hope you find my reception report to be of some use. If the details please veryfy with a Q.S.L Card and also send me Programme scheduled.
Madhab Chandra Sagour W.B.INDIA.

I was very pleased to hear your 6150 kHz signal at 10:29 utc in Huddersfield, United Kingdom for the first time, on 22nd December 2019. You were playing Lovemachine by Supermax.

My receiver was a Tecsun PL-680 attached to a 7 metre wire. I was in my car at about 1400 feet above sea level, away from any sources of interference. Your signal was strong with slight fading (444). I attach a short recording of my reception.
I would appreciate it if you could confirm my reception with a QSL.
danke schön

Dear Sirs, *Radio Marabu*,
I am contacting you because I had the great pleasure of listening to your
station and.so here I am, with the reception report, relative to a
transmission heard on the *23 of December 2019,* from *10:04 to 10:20 UTC* on
the frequency of *6150 kHz*, with a broadcast in *German.* The receiving
conditions where fair, with a *SINPO 35343 *(unfortunately I have quite a
lot of electrical noise here in Milano)*. *I heard your station with my
Perseus SDR receiver connected to the Cushcraft R8.

*Details *of the program heard: at 10:04 the song „Reviens-Moi“ by Dalida,
then male and female speakers talking. Since regrettably I don’t speak
German, to prove my reception I am attaching a short *1-minute recording* of
the broadcast taken at 10:07 UTC, in MP3 format.

If these details are correct, I really would like to *receive your QSL-card* or
letter (I am an enthusiastic collector). Of course, an electronic QSL (that
I can print myself) would be perfectly fine as well.

Just for information, I am 54 years old and work as a Professor at
Politecnico di Milano (a technical University) in the area of
Telecommunications. I also am a licensed radio amateur, with callsign
IZ2EAS.

I stay waiting for your answer; in the meantime, please receive the best
wishes of good work, and many thanks in advance.

My radio receiver is an Airspy HF+ Discovery, with SDR Console version 3.0.17 software.
My antenna is a Wellbrook ala-1530 loop at four metres.
(I always use my own receiving equipment and not web based SDRs)
I enjoyed the music.
Please will you confirm my reception with one of your QSL card’s?
Do you have a Radio Marabu mug I could purchase?
Thank you
All the very best for the new year to everyone at Radio Marabu.
Patrick Travers,
Sheffield, S25 5JG,
U.K.🇬🇧

Guten Tag, I am sorry that cannot write this report in german. My name is Misayo Tanaka. I’m a 52 year old Japanese woman living in England. I listen to shortwave on my husbands old radio cassette player in my kitchen. This is my first reception report to you. I enjoyed the music you played although i did not recognise any of them or understand the commentaries in german. Since 2020 i have a good with strong signal and little noise here in EastSussex.